The evolution of alpha/beta barrel enzymes. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Of the enzymes whose structure is known, roughly one out of ten has an eight-stranded alpha/beta barrel domain. Structural and chemical evidence suggests that all of these domains may have diverged from a common ancestor.

publication date

  • June 1, 1990

Research

keywords

  • Biological Evolution
  • Enzymes
  • Protein Conformation

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0025284257

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/0968-0004(90)90035-a

PubMed ID

  • 2200166

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 15

issue

  • 6