The Structure of a Bacterial DUF199/WhiA Protein: Domestication of an Invasive Endonuclease

Structure

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1368-1376

  Kaiser, Brett K ^a   Clifton, Matthew C ^a   Shen, Betty W ^a   Stoddard, Barry L ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

PROTEINS; SIGNALING

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN DUF199; PROTEIN WHIA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; ENZYME KINETICS; METAL BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPORES, BACTERIAL; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 70349769484     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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