Crystal Structure of an Uncommon Cellulosome-Related Protein Module from Ruminococcus flavefaciens That Resembles Papain-Like Cysteine Peptidases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Levy Assaraf, Maly ^a   Voronov Goldman, Milana ^a   Rozman Grinberg, Inna ^a   Weiserman, Gloria ^a   Shimon, Linda J W ^b   Jindou, Sadanari ^a,c   Borovok, Ilya ^a   White, Bryan A ^d   Bayer, Edward A ^b   Lamed, Raphael ^a   Frolow, Felix ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSOME; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; GENOMIC DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PAPAIN; PROTEIN NLPC; PROTEIN P60; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DATA MINING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELLULOSOMES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPAIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RUMINOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84874008654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056138     Document Type: Article

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