Structural insights into the GTPase domain of Escherichia coli MnmE protein

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 726-739

  Monleón, Daniel ^a   Martínez Vicente, Marta ^b   Esteve, Vicent ^a   Yim, Lucia ^b   Prado, Silvia ^b   Armengod, Maria Eugenia ^b   Celda, Bernardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aluminium fluoride; Era; GTPase; Homology modeling; MnmE; NMB; Rap2A; Ras; TrmE

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM FLUORIDE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN MNME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33846234741     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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