Glyoxylate carboligase lacks the canonical active site glutamate of thiamine-dependent enzymes

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-118

  Kaplun, Alexander ^a   Binshtein, Elad ^a   Vyazmensky, Maria ^a   Steinmetz, Andrea ^b   Barak, Ze'ev ^a   Chipman, David M ^a   Tittmann, Kai ^b   Shaanan, Boaz ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYOXYLIC ACID CARBOLIGASE; GLYOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LIGASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; THIAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTON TRANSPORT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 38349004540     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.62     Document Type: Article

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