Crystal structure of Escherichia coli crotonobetainyl-CoA: Carnitine CoA-transferase (CaiB) and its complexes with CoA and carnitinyl-CoA

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5728-5738

  Rangarajan, Erumbi S ^a,b   Li, Yunge ^b,c   Iannuzzi, Pietro ^b,c   Cygler, Miroslaw ^a,b,c   Matte, Allan ^b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Montreal Jt Ctr for Struct Biol   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTIC CELLS; PROKKARYOTIC CELLS; ROSSMANN FOLD; TERNARY ENZYMES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CATALYSIS; CELLS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; METABOLISM; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

COENZYMES;

ACID ANHYDRIDE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARNITINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DIMER; GAMMA BUTYROBETAINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MONOMER; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OXALOBACTER FORMIGENES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REACTION ANALYSIS;

APOENZYMES; CARNITINE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COENZYME A; COENZYME A-TRANSFERASES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; OXALOBACTER FORMIGENES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 17144401868     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi047656f     Document Type: Article

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