Identification of the bona fide DHDPS from a common plant pathogen

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1869-1883

  Atkinson, Sarah C ^a,b   Hor, Lilian ^a,b   Dogovski, Con ^a,b   Dobson, Renwick C J ^b,c   Perugini, Matthew A ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Allostery; Analytical ultracentrifugation; Crown gall disease; Dihydrodipicolinate synthase; Enzyme kinetics; Enzyme structure; Lysine biosynthesis; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DIHYDRODIPICOLINATE SYNTHASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SYNTHETASE; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HYDROLYASE;

2HMC GENE; 2R8W GENE; 3B4U GENE; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETIC ASSAY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT TUMOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDRO-LYASES; PLANT TUMORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84906310372     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24539     Document Type: Article

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