A putative house-cleaning enzyme encoded within an integron array: 1.8 Å crystal structure defines a new MazG subtype

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 610-621

  Robinson, Andrew ^a   Guilfoyle, Amy P ^a   Harrop, Stephen J ^b,c   Boucher, Yan ^a,d   Stokes, H W ^a   Curmi, Paul M G ^b,c   Mabbutt, Bridget C ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYCYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; MAZG PROTEIN; PARATHION; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HOST CELL; INTEGRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; INTEGRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO SP.;

EID: 35448994482     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05932.x     Document Type: Article

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