Emerging themes in radical SAM chemistry

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 701-710

  Shisler, Krista A ^a   Broderick, Joan B ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; IRON; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SULFUR; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

BIOCATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; RADICAL REACTION; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA METHYLATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOCATALYSIS; FREE RADICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

EID: 84870389156     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.10.005     Document Type: Review

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