Evolutionary persistence of the molybdopyranopterin-containing sulfite oxidase protein fold

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 228-248

  Workun, Gregory J ^a   Moquin, Kamila ^a   Rothery, Richard A ^a   Weiner, Joel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; MOLYBDOPYRANOPTERIN; PTERIN DERIVATIVE; SULFITE OXIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS AND COCCI; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PICHIA; PICHIA ANGUSTA; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; STARKEYA NOVELLA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COENZYMES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; METALLOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLYBDENUM; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PTERIDINES; PTERINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFITE OXIDASE;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PICHIA ANGUSTA; STARKEYA NOVELLA;

EID: 44949191540     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00041-07     Document Type: Review

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