The evolution of enzyme function in the isomerases

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 121-130

  Martinez Cuesta, Sergio ^a   Furnham, Nicholas ^b   Rahman, Syed Asad ^a   Sillitoe, Ian ^c   Thornton, Janet M ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE; ISOMERASE; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE SUGAR; PHOSPHATE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; STEROID DELTA ISOMERASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE; XYLOSE ISOMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; ISOMERASES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84903777447     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2014.06.002     Document Type: Review

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