Subunit association as the stabilizing determinant for archaeal methionine adenosyltransferases

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1794, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1082-1090

  Garrido, Francisco ^a   Alfonso, Carlos ^b   Taylor, John C ^c   Markham, George D ^c   Pajares, María A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Methionine adenosyltransferase; S adenosylmethionine synthetase; Stability; Structural model; Thermophile; Tryptophan mutant

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DIMER; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENATURATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME STABILITY; METHANOCOCCUS; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

ARCHAEA; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII;

EID: 67349210660     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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