Small angle x-ray scattering analysis of clostridium thermocellum cellulosome N-terminal complexes reveals a highly dynamic structure

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 7978-7985

  Currie, Mark A ^a   Cameron, Kate ^b   Dias, Fernando M V ^b   Spencer, Holly L ^a   Bayer, Edward A ^c   Fontes, Carlos M G A ^b   Smith, Steven P ^a   Jia, Zongchao ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENZYMES;

CARBOHYDRATE BINDING MODULES; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; CONFORMATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; EXTENDED STRUCTURES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; STRUCTURAL DETERMINATION; SUBSTRATE RECOGNITION;

X RAY SCATTERING;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELLULASE; CELLULASE CEL8A; CELLULOSOME; COHESIN TYPE I; DOCKERIN TYPE I; SCAFFOLDIN SUBUNIT CIPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875189918     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.408757     Document Type: Article

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