Dissecting enzyme regulation by multiple allosteric effectors: nucleotide regulation of aspartate transcarbamoylase

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5881-5888

  Rabinowitz, Joshua D ^a   Hsiao, Jennifer J ^a   Gryncel, Kimberly R ^b   Kantrowitz, Evan R ^b   Feng, Xiao Jiang ^a   Li, Genyuan ^a   Rabitz, Herschel ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDES;

ALLOSTERIC EFFECTORS; ENZYME REGULATION; PYRIMIDINE BIOSYNTHESIS;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; VARIANCE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ALLOSTERIC SITE; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 44349141904     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi8000566     Document Type: Article

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