Reversible, Long-Range Radical Transfer in E. coli Class Ia Ribonucleotide Reductase

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2524-2535

  Minnihan, Ellen C ^a   Nocera, Daniel G ^b   Stubbe, JoAnne ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FREE RADICAL; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DOCKING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AMINO ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREE RADICALS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84877877973     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar4000407     Document Type: Article

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