Functional comparison of the two Bacillus anthracis glutamate racemases

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 5265-5275

  Dodd, Dylan ^a   Reese, Joseph G ^a   Louer, Craig R ^a   Ballard, Jimmy D ^b   Spies, M Ashley ^a   Blanke, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DEXTRO GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN RACE1; PROTEIN RACE2; RACEMASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CATALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RACE1 GENE; RACE2 GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STEREOISOMERISM;

AMINO ACID ISOMERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOENZYMES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34447526743     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00352-07     Document Type: Article

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