Redesigning dehalogenase access tunnels as a strategy for degrading an anthropogenic substrate

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 727-733

  Pavlova, Martina ^a   Klvana, Martin ^a   Prokop, Zbynek ^a   Chaloupkova, Radka ^a   Banas, Pavel ^b   Otyepka, Michal ^b   Wade, Rebecca C ^c   Tsuda, Masataka ^d   Nagata, Yuji ^d   Damborsky, Jiri ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c EML Research gGmbH   (Germany)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2,3 TRICHLOROPROPANE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; DEHALOGENASE; HALOGEN; PROPANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHALOGENATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME KINETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS;

BINDING SITES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HYDROLASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROPANE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RHODOCOCCUS;

EID: 70349330482     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.205     Document Type: Article

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