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Mechanism of the phenylpyruvate tautomerase activity of macrophage migration inhibitory factor: properties of the P1G, P1A, Y95F, and N97A mutants.
Biochemistry - 15 Aug 2000
Stamps S L, Taylor A B, Wang S C, Hackert M L, Whitman C P
Abstract excerpt
Phenylpyruvate tautomerase (PPT) has been studied periodically since its activity was first described over forty years ago. In the last two years, the mechanism of PPT has been investigated more extensively because of the discovery that PPT is the same protein as the immunoregulatory cytokine known as macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF). The mechanism of PPT is likely to involve general base-general acid...
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