Hydrogen tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed H-transfer reactions: Flavoprotein and quinoprotein systems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1472, 2006, Pages 1375-1386

  Sutcliffe, Michael J ^a,b   Masgrau, Laura ^a,b   Roujeinikova, Anna ^a   Johannissen, Linus O ^a,b   Hothi, Parvinder ^a   Basran, Jaswir ^c   Ranaghan, Kara E ^d   Mulholland, Adrian J ^d   Leys, David ^a   Scrutton, Nigel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational simulation; H tunnelling; Kinetic isotope effect; Stopped flow kinetics; Transition state theory

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 33748357971     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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