Crystal Structures of Lysine-Preferred Racemases, the Non-Antibiotic Selectable Markers for Transgenic Plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Hsin Mao ^a   Kuan, Yi Chia ^b   Chu, Chia Han ^a   Hsu, Wen Hwei ^b   Wang, Wen Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLYCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; RACEMASE; SERINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID ISOMERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; KINETICS; LYSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 84868271210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048301     Document Type: Article

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