The complex of Sphingomonas elodea ATCC 31461 glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase with glucose-1-phosphate reveals a novel quaternary structure, unique among nucleoside diphosphate-sugar pyrophosphorylase members

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4520-4528

  Aragão, David ^a,b   Fialho, Arsénio M ^c   Marques, Ana R ^c   Mitchell, Edward P ^b   Sá Correia, Isabel ^c   Frazão, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GELLAN; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE SUGAR; NUCLEOTIDE; PYROPHOSPHATE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS ELODEA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPHINGOMONAS; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

SPHINGOMONAS ELODEA;

EID: 34250343820     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00277-07     Document Type: Article

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