Crystal structure of human spermidine/spermine N1- acetyltransferase (hSSAT): The first structure of a new sequence family of transferase homologous superfamily

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1127-1131

  Zhu, Yong Qun ^a,b   Zhu, De Yu ^a,b   Yin, Lei ^a,b   Zhang, Ying ^a   Vonrhein, Clemens ^c   Wang, Da Cheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GLOBAL PHASING LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMINO ACID; SPERMIDINE; SPERMIDINE SPERMINE N1 ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SPERMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE INSERTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HSSAT GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMINE;

EID: 33646768918     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20965     Document Type: Article

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