Substrate selectivity of YgfU, a uric acid transporter from Escherichia coli

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 15684-15695

  Papakostas, Konstantinos ^a   Frillingos, Stathis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; GENOMIC LOCUS; HIGH-CAPACITY; HOMOLOGY MODELING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SITE-SPECIFIC REPLACEMENTS; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SELECTIVITY; URIC ACIDS; X-RAY STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ORGANIC ACIDS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; PERMEASE; PERMEASE XANQ; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIC ACID; XANTHINE; YGFU URIC ACID TRANSPORTER;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NUCLEOBASE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; URIC ACID; XANTHINE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84860862465     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.355818     Document Type: Article

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