Discovering the electronic circuit diagram of life: Structural relationships among transition metal binding sites in oxidoreductases

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1622, 2013, Pages

  Dongun Kim, J ^a   Senn, Stefan ^a   Harel, Arye ^a   Jelen, Benjamin I ^a   Falkowski, Paul G ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics; Biogeochemical cycles; Evolution; Metabolic pathways; Oxidoreductase; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BONDING; CLADISTICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHYLOGENY; SUBSTRATE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

PROKARYOTA;

METAL; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; METALS; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84878794113     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0257     Document Type: Article

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