Crystal structure of YnjE from Escherichia coli, a sulfurtransferase with three rhodanese domains

Protein Science

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2480-2491

  Hänzelmann, Petra ^a   Dahl, Jan U ^b   Kuper, Jochen ^a   Urban, Alexander ^b   Müller Theissen, Ursula ^b   Leimkühler, Silke ^b   Schindelin, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Persulfide; Phylogenetic analysis; Rhodanese; Sulfurtransferase; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN YNJE; SULFOTRANSFERASE; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 73149119395     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.260     Document Type: Article

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