Insights into a type III cohesin-dockerin recognition interface from the cellulose-degrading bacterium Ruminococcus flavefaciens

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 148-154

  Weinstein, Jonathan Y ^a   Slutzki, Michal ^a,b   Karpol, Alon ^a   Barak, Yoav ^a   Gul, Ozgur ^a,c   Lamed, Raphael ^d   Bayer, Edward A ^a   Fried, Daniel B ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cellulose; Cellulosome; Clostridium thermocellum; Cohesin; Dockerin; Ruminococcus flavefaciens

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSOME; COHESIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RUMINOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSOMES; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RUMINOCOCCUS;

EID: 84923332128     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: 10991352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmr.2380     Document Type: Article

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