GALT protein database: Querying structural and functional features of GALT enzyme

Human Mutation

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1060-1067

  d'Acierno, Antonio ^a   Facchiano, Angelo ^a   Marabotti, Anna ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classic Galactosemia; Database; Galactose 1 phosphate uridylyltransferase; GALT; Molecular modelling; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ENZYME VARIANT; GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN VARIANT; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GALACTOSEMIA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; STORAGE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; SEARCH ENGINE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WEB BROWSER;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SEARCH ENGINE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; UTP-HEXOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84906056147     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.22613     Document Type: Article

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