The Role of Arg165 Towards Base Flipping, Base Stabilization and Catalysis in M.HhaI

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 362, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 516-527

  Shieh, Fa Kuen ^a   Youngblood, Ben ^a   Reich, Norbert O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

base flipping; cocrytal structure; kinetics; methyltransferase; sugar pucker

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33748113136     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.07.030     Document Type: Article

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