Crystal structure of the bacterial luciferase/flavin complex provides insight into the function of the β subunit

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 6085-6094

  Campbell, Zachary T ^a   Weichsel, Andrzej ^a   Montfort, William R ^a   Baldwin, Thomas O ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CENTER; CATALYTIC MECHANISMS; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; HETERODIMER; NON-CATALYTIC; PEPTIDE BONDS; STRUCTURAL EVIDENCE; SULFHYDRYL GROUPS; THOMPSON;

AMINES; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONFORMATIONS; COORDINATION REACTIONS; OXYGENATION;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; HETERODIMER; LUCIFERASE; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BETA CHAIN; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROQUINONES; KINETICS; LUCIFERASES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TYROSINE; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 67650085900     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi900003t     Document Type: Article

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