Critical residues for cofactor binding and catalytic activity in the aminoglycoside resistance methyltransferase Sgm

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5855-5861

  Savic, Miloje ^a   Ilic Tomic, Tatjana ^b   Macmaster, Rachel ^a   Vasiljevic, Branka ^b   Conn, Graeme L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENETIC ENGINEERING   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; FMRO METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENTAMICIN; METHYL GROUP; METHYLATED SPIRIT; METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SGM METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MICROMONOSPORA; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CALORIMETRY; CATALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROMONOSPORA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MICROMONOSPORA ZIONENSIS;

EID: 50249152954     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00076-08     Document Type: Article

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