Two Fe-S clusters catalyze sulfur insertion by radical-SAM methylthiotransferases

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 333-338

  Forouhar, Farhad ^a,b   Arragain, Simon ^c   Atta, Mohamed ^c   Gambarelli, Serge ^d   Mouesca, Jean Marie ^d   Hussain, Munif ^a,b   Xiao, Rong ^a,e,f   Kieffer Jaquinod, Sylvie ^g   Seetharaman, Jayaraman ^a,b   Acton, Thomas B ^a,e,f   Montelione, Gaetano T ^a,e,f   Mulliez, Etienne ^c   Hunt, John F ^a,b   Fontecave, Marc ^c,h  

^a NorthEast Structural Genomics Consortium (NESG)   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g INSERM   (France)

^h l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; METHYLTHIOTRANSFERASES MIAB; METHYLTHIOTRANSFERASES RIMO; RADICAL ADENOSYLMETHIONINE METHYLTHIOTRANSFERASE; SULFUR; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SULFATION;

BIOCATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FREE RADICALS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SULFUR; SULFURTRANSFERASES; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 84879097741     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1229     Document Type: Article

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