Properties and crystal structure of Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase from thermus thermophilus HB8

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Igari, Sayaka ^a   Ohtaki, Akashi ^a   Yamanaka, Yasuaki ^a   Sato, Yuichi ^a   Yohda, Masafumi ^a   Odaka, Masafumi ^a   Noguchi, Keiichi ^a   Yamada, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; HETERODIMER; HOMODIMER; TETRAMER; 5,6,7,8-TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TETRAHYDROFOLATES; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 80051699382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023716     Document Type: Article

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