The solution of nitrogen inversion in amidases

FEBS Journal

Volumn 280, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 3069-3083

  Syrén, Per Olof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

amidase; catalytic mechanism; catalytic promiscuity; hydrogen bonds; mechanism of serine protease catalysis; protease; protease specificity

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; NITROGEN; NUCLEOPHILE; PROTEASOME; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

CATALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME ENGINEERING; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NITROGEN INVERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON SHUTTLE; PROTON TRANSPORT;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ENZYME STABILITY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NITROGEN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEOLYSIS; PROTONS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84879202399     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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