Determination of the Structure of the Catabolic N-Succinylornithine Transaminase (AstC) from Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Newman, Janet ^a   Seabrook, Shane ^a   Surjadi, Regina ^a   Williams, Charlotte C ^a   Lucent, Del ^a   Wilding, Matthew ^a   Scott, Colin ^a   Peat, Thomas S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; N SUCCINYLORNITHINE OXOACID AMINOTRANSFERASE; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE OXOACID AMINOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACYLATION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESOLVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STERIC EFFECT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORNITHINE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 84874615902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058298     Document Type: Article

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