Crystal structures of catalytic complexes of the oxidative DNA/RNA repair enzyme AlkB

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7078, 2006, Pages 879-884

  Yu, Bomina ^a   Edstrom, William C ^a   Benach, Jordi ^a   Hamuro, Yoshitomo ^b   Weber, Patricia C ^b   Gibney, Brian R ^a   Hunt, John F ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b ExSAR Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPLEXATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; OXIDATION; TUMORS;

HYPOTHESIZED MIGRATION; MICHAELIS COMPLEX; OXY-FERRYL LIGAND; PROTEIN DYNAMICS;

ENZYMES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIOXYGENASE; DNA; OXOGLUTARATE DIOXYGENASE; PROTEIN ALK B; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 32844455577     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04561     Document Type: Article

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