Structural basis for catalytic activation of a serine recombinase

Structure

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 799-809

  Keenholtz, Ross A ^a   Rowland, Sally J ^b   Boocock, Martin R ^b   Stark, W Marshall ^b   Rice, Phoebe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DIMER; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECOMBINASE; SERINE RECOMBINASE; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79958180554     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: 18784186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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