Crystal Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis YefM Antitoxin Reveals that it is Not an Intrinsically Unstructured Protein

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 383, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 482-493

  Kumar, Pramod ^a   Issac, Biju ^a   Dodson, Eleanor J ^b   Turkenburg, Johan P ^b   Mande, Shekhar C ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antitoxin; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; persistence; toxin; YefM YoeB

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN YEFM; PROTEIN YOEB; RIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 53149133857     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.08.067     Document Type: Article

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