Biochemical studies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis UreG and comparative modeling reveal structural and functional conservation among the bacterial UreG family

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3171-3182

  Zambelli, Barbara ^a   Musiani, Francesco ^a   Savini, Matteo ^a   Tucker, Paul ^b   Ciurli, Stefano ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c CERM Center for Magnetic Resonance   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION MECHANISM; HOMEOSTASIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UREOLYTIC BACTERIA;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CELLS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LIGHT SCATTERING; NICKEL; PATHOGENS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA;

CHAPERONE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN UREG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYSTEINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NICKEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33947407216     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi6024676     Document Type: Article

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