Structural insights into the target specificity of plant invertase and pectin methylesterase inhibitory proteins

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3437-3447

  Hothorn, Michael ^a   Wolf, Sebastian ^b   Aloy, Patrick ^a   Greiner, Steffen ^b   Scheffzek, Klaus ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME INHIBITION; METABOLISM; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EXTRACELLULAR PROTEINS; INVERTASE; PECTIN METHYLESTERASE (PME);

ENZYMES;

ENZYMES; METABOLISM; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBOXYLESTERASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; INH PROTEIN, NICOTIANA TABACUM; PECTINESTERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 13844293071     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.025684     Document Type: Article

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