PhnK: Another Piece of the Carbon-Phosphorus Lyase Puzzle

David L Zechel

doi:10.1016/j.str.2015.12.004

PhnK: Another Piece of the Carbon-Phosphorus Lyase Puzzle

Structure. 2016 Jan 5;24(1):3-4. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2015.12.004.

Author

David L Zechel¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, 90 Bader Lane, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. Electronic address: dlzechel@chem.queensu.ca.

PMID: 26745526
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2015.12.004

Abstract

Despite the fact that carbon-phosphorus lyase activity was first documented more than 50 years ago, we are yet to completely understand the details of how this enzyme system functions or what it looks like. In this issue of Structure, Yang et al. (2016) now provide a step forward with a view of how PhnK fits into the bigger picture of carbon-phosphorus lyase.

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Escherichia coli / enzymology*
Models, Molecular*