Solution Structure of the Tandem Acyl Carrier Protein Domains from a Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Synthase Reveals Beads-on-a-String Configuration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Trujillo, Uldaeliz ^a   Vázquez Rosa, Edwin ^b   Oyola Robles, Delise ^a   Stagg, Loren J ^c   Vassallo, David A ^a   Vega, Irving E ^b   Arold, Stefan T ^c,d   Baerga Ortiz, Abel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOCATALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FATTY ACID SYNTHETASE COMPLEX; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84874579209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057859     Document Type: Article

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