Probing the dynamic interface between trimethylamine dehydrogenase (TMADH) and electron transferring flavoprotein (ETF) in the TMADH-2ETF complex: Role of the Arg-α237 (ETF) and Tyr-442 (TMADH) residue pair

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5168-5181

  Burgess, Selena G ^a   Messiha, Hanan Latif ^c   Katona, Gergely ^a   Rigby, Stephen E J ^b   Leys, David ^b   Scrutton, Nigel S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTATICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MUTAGENESIS; PHASE INTERFACES;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURES; ELECTRON TRANSFERRING FLAVOPROTEIN (ETF); ELECTROSTATIC NETWORKS; PUTATIVE TRANSIENT INTERACTION;

ENZYMES;

ELECTRON TRANSFERRING FLAVOPROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEMIQUINONE; TRIMETHYLAMINE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ARGININE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON-TRANSFERRING FLAVOPROTEINS; METHYLOPHILUS METHYLOTROPHUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES, N-DEMETHYLATING; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TITRIMETRY; TYROSINE;

EID: 42949118299     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi800127d     Document Type: Article

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