Roles of conserved basic amino acid residues and activation mechanism of the hyperthermophilic aspartate racemase at high temperature

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 502-512

  Yoshida, Takumitsu ^a   Seko, Tomohiro ^b   Okada, Okimasa ^b   Iwata, Kousuke ^a   Liu, Lijun ^c,d   Miki, Kunio ^c   Yohda, Masafumi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FUJI XEROX CO LTD   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartate racemase; D amino acid; Docking simulation; Hyperthermophilic; Molecular dynamics simulation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTATE RACEMASE; CYSTEINE; SULFUR; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; RACEMIZATION; SIMULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID ISOMERASES; ARGININE; BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYSTEINE; ELECTROSTATICS; KINETICS; LYSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII;

EID: 33745601673     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21010     Document Type: Article

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