The lumazine synthase/riboflavin synthase complex: Shapes and functions of a highly variable enzyme system

FEBS Journal

Volumn 280, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2537-2563

  Ladenstein, Rudolf ^a   Fischer, Markus ^b   Bacher, Adelbert ^b,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

enzyme catalysis; lumazine synthase; protein assembly; protein association; protein dissociation; riboflavin synthase; vitamin biosynthesis; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

FLAVODOXIN; LUMAZINE SYNTHASE; RIBOFLAVIN SYNTHASE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BETA CHAIN; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENCAPSULATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FUNGI; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PLANTS; PTERIDINES; RIBOFLAVIN; RIBOFLAVIN SYNTHASE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 84878262804     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12255     Document Type: Review

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