New paradigm for allosteric regulation of escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase

Biochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 8036-8047

  Cockrell, Gregory M ^a   Zheng, Yunan ^a   Guo, Wenyue ^a   Peterson, Alexis W ^a   Truong, Jennifer K ^a   Kantrowitz, Evan R ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOSTERIC ACTIVATION; ALLOSTERIC ACTIVATOR; ALLOSTERIC INHIBITOR; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ALLOSTERIC SITE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RANGE; STRUCTURAL DATA; X-RAY STRUCTURE;

CHAINS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

POSITIVE IONS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; CALCIUM ION; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MAGNESIUM ION; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ZINC;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONFORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84887585340     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi401205n     Document Type: Article

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