The prototypic class Ia ribonucleotide reductase from Escherichia coli: Still surprising after all these years

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 523-530

  Brignole, Edward J ^a   Ando, Nozomi ^a   Zimanyi, Christina M ^a   Drennan, Catherine L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; Conformational equilibrium; Feedback regulation; Nucleotide biosynthesis; Oligomerization; Protein protein interaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYSTEINE; OLIGOMER; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE CLASS IA; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84861500520     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20120081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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