The "Rhodanese" Fold and Catalytic Mechanism of 3-Mercaptopyruvate Sulfurtransferases: Crystal Structure of SseA from Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 335, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 583-593

  Spallarossa, Andrea ^a   Forlani, Fabio ^b   Carpen, Aristodemo ^b   Armirotti, Andrea ^a   Pagani, Silvia ^b   Bolognesi, Martino ^a,c   Bordo, Domenico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Rhodanese; Sulfur metabolism; Sulfurtransferases

Indexed keywords

3 MERCAPTOPYRUVATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYANIDE; CYSTEINE; ENZYME SSEA; HISTIDINE; PYRUVIC ACID; SULFUR; SULFURTRANSFERASE; THIOCYANATE; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0347627531     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.10.072     Document Type: Article

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