The molecular structure of ornithine acetyltransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis bound to ornithine, a competitive inhibitor

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 397, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 979-990

  Sankaranarayanan, Ramasamy ^a   Cherney, Maia M ^a   Garen, Craig ^a   Garen, Grace ^a   Niu, Chunying ^a   Yuan, Marshall ^a   James, Michael N G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium tuberculosis; N terminal nucleophile; Ornithine; Ornithine acetyltransferase; X ray crystal structure

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCINE; ORNITHINE; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOMYCES CLAVULIGERUS;

EID: 77950022996     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.02.018     Document Type: Article

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