Structures and reaction mechanisms of GTP cyclohydrolases

IUBMB Life

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 310-322

  Gräwert, Tobias ^a   Fischer, Markus ^a   Bacher, Adelbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

biosynthesis; folate; GTP cyclohydrolase; pteridines; reaction mechanism; riboflavin

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE II; METHANOPTERIN; PHENYLALANINE; RIBOFLAVIN; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CATALYST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOPTERIN; CATIONS, DIVALENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOLIC ACID; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; KINETICS; RIBOFLAVIN;

EID: 84875310962     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.1153     Document Type: Review

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