Crystal structure of Streptococcus mutans pyrophosphatase: a new fold for an old mechanism.
Merckel, M.C., Fabrichniy, I.P., Salminen, A., Kalkkinen, N., Baykov, A.A., Lahti, R., Goldman, A.(2001) Structure 9: 289-297
- PubMed: 11525166 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0969-2126(01)00587-1
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1I74 - PubMed Abstract: 
Streptococcus mutans pyrophosphatase (Sm-PPase) is a member of a relatively uncommon but widely dispersed sequence family (family II) of inorganic pyrophosphatases. A structure will answer two main questions: is it structurally similar to the family I PPases, and is the mechanism similar?
Organizational Affiliation: 
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland.