A glutathione transferase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens reveals a novel class of bacterial GST superfamily

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Skopelitou, Katholiki ^a   Dhavala, Prathusha ^b   Papageorgiou, Anastassios C ^b   Labrou, Nikolaos E ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE DERIVATIVE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE H1 1; HALIDE; HYDROPEROXIDE; PEROXIDASE; PHENYLALANINE; S (4 NITROBENZYL)GLUTATHIONE; SERINE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; GLUTATHIONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84859305187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034263     Document Type: Article

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