Structural and functional insight into the mechanism of an alkaline exonuclease from Laribacter hongkongensis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9803-9819

  Yang, Wen ^a   Chen, Wen Yang ^b   Wang, Hui ^a,c   Ho, John W S ^d   Huang, Jian Dong ^e   Woo, Patrick C Y ^e   Lau, Susanna K P ^e   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^e   Zhang, Qionglin ^a   Zhou, Weihong ^a   Bartlam, Mark ^a   Watt, Rory M ^b   Rao, Zihe ^a,c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXONUCLEASE; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE; METAL ION; MONOMER; RECOMBINANT LHK EXO PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; LARIBACTER HONGKONGENSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOBACTERIA; RECOGNITION;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; METALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEISSERIACEAE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 83755224379     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr660     Document Type: Article

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