Probing the architecture of the Mycobacterium marinum arylamine N-acetyltransferase active site

Protein and Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 384-392

  Abuhammad, Areej M ^a   Lowe, Edward D ^b   Fullam, Elizabeth ^a   Noble, Martin ^b   Garman, Elspeth F ^b   Sim, Edith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D crystal structure; arylamine N acetyltransferase; binding pocket; Mycobacterium marinum; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLTRIAZOLO[3,4 A]PHTHALAZINE; AROMATIC AMINE; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HYDRALAZINE; HYDRAZINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYCLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGAND BINDING; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONYLATION;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79851508130     PISSN: 1674800X     EISSN: 16748018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13238-010-0037-7     Document Type: Article

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