Crystal structure of the noncompetitive xylanase inhibitor TLXI, member of the small thaumatin-like protein family

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2391-2394

  Vandermarliere, Elien ^a   Lammens, Willem ^a,b   Schoepe, Jan ^a   Rombouts, Sigrid ^c   Fierens, Ellen ^d   Gebruers, Kurt ^d   Volckaert, Guido ^c   Rabijns, Anja ^a   Delcour, Jan A ^d   Strelkov, Sergei V ^a   Courtin, Christophe M ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b Laboratory of Molecular Plant Physiology   (Belgium)

^c LABORATORY OF GENE TECHNOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acidic surface cleft; Crystal structure; Thaumatin like proteins; Xylanase inhibitor

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITOR; PROTEIN TLXI; THAUMATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE; ENDO 1,4 BETA XYLANASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PLANT ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THAUMATIN-LIKE PROTEIN, WHEAT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ZEAMATIN PROTEIN, ZEA MAYS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INHIBITION KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WHEAT; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

ANTIGENS, PLANT; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; MUTANT PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; TRITICUM;

EID: 77954391060     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22737     Document Type: Article

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