Functional and structural characterization of four glutaminases from Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5724-5735

  Brown, Greg ^a   Singer, Alex ^a   Proudfoot, Michael ^a   Skarina, Tatiana ^a   Kim, Youngchang ^b   Chang, Changsoo ^b   Dementieva, Irina ^b   Kuznetsova, Ekaterina ^a   Gonzalez, Claudio F ^c   Joachimiak, Andrzej ^b   Savchenko, Alexei ^a   Yakunin, Alexander F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Structural Biology Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS;

GLUTAMINASES; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

6 DIAZO 5 OXONORLEUCINE; ACID; ALANINE; ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAMASE; GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; LYSINE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBON SOURCE; CATALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 44349162418     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi800097h     Document Type: Article

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