Folate in demethylation: The crystal structure of the rat dimethylglycine dehydrogenase complexed with tetrahydrofolate

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 449, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 392-398

  Luka, Zigmund ^a   Pakhomova, Svetlana ^b   Loukachevitch, Lioudmila V ^a   Newcomer, Marcia E ^b   Wagner, Conrad ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Dimethylglycine dehydrogenase; Rat; Tetrahydrofolate

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLGLYCINE DEHYDROGENASE; FOLIC ACID; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEMETHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMETHYLGLYCINE DEHYDROGENASE; RAT; TETRAHYDROFOLATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMETHYLGLYCINE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; SARCOSINE; TETRAHYDROFOLATES;

EID: 84902849701     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.05.064     Document Type: Article

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