Biological phosphoryl-transfer reactions: Understanding mechanism and catalysis

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 80, Issue , 2011, Pages 669-702

  Lassila, Jonathan K ^a   Zalatan, Jesse G ^b   Herschlag, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

enzymes; kinetic isotope effects; linear free energy relationship; phosphate ester; transition state

Indexed keywords

3 METHOXYPYRIDINE; ACID ANHYDRIDE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ENZYME; ESTER DERIVATIVE; NUCLEOPHILE; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOROTHIOATE MONOESTER; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS; PICOLINE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYROPHOSPHATE; SULFATE; SULFATE MONOESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL ENERGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOSPHORYL TRANSFER REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

CATALYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; ISOTOPES; KINETICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RAS PROTEINS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 79959432785     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 00664154     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060409-092741     Document Type: Article

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