Structural mechanism of allosteric substrate specificity regulation in a ribonucleotide reductase.
Larsson, K.-M., Jordan, A., Eliasson, R., Reichard, P., Logan, D.T., Nordlund, P.(2004) Nat Struct Mol Biol 11: 1142-1149
- PubMed: 15475969 
- DOI: 10.1038/nsmb838
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1XJE, 1XJF, 1XJG, 1XJJ, 1XJK, 1XJM, 1XJN - PubMed Abstract: 
Ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) catalyze the reduction of ribonucleotides into deoxyribonucleotides, which constitute the precursor pools used for DNA synthesis and repair. Imbalances in these pools increase mutational rates and are detrimental to the cell ...