Structural basis for the enantiospecificities of R- and S-specific phenoxypropionate/α-ketoglutarate dioxygenases

Protein Science

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1356-1368

  Müller, Tina A ^a   Zavodszky, Maria I ^b   Feig, Michael ^b,c   Kuhn, Leslie A ^b   Hausinger, Robert P ^a,b  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dioxygenase; Docking; Enantiospecificity; Mecoprop; Site directed mutagenesis; Structural modeling

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; DIOXYGENASE; DOCKING PROTEIN; MECOPROP;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENANTIOMER; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

2-METHYL-4-CHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; BINDING SITES; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPHINGOMONAS; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33744465260     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.052059406     Document Type: Article

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