Spectroscopic and theoretical approaches for studying radical reactions in class I ribonucleotide reductase

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 386, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1007-1022

  Bennati, Marina ^a   Lendzian, Friedhelm ^b   Schmittel, Michael ^c   Zipse, Hendrik ^d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acid based radicals; Catalytic mechanism; Density functional theory; High field EPR ENDOR; Hydrogen abstraction; Ribonucleotide reductase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; IRON; RADICAL; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; THIOL; TYROSINE;

BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL REACTION; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYSIS; IRON; METALLOPROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 27644446535     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14316730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2005.117     Document Type: Review

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