Structural features of mammalian histidine decarboxylase reveal the basis for specific inhibition
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Structural features of mammalian histidine decarboxylase reveal the basis for specific inhibition.
For a long time the structural and molecular features of mammalian histidine decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.22), the enzyme that produces histamine, have evaded characterization. We overcome the experimental problems for the study of this enzyme by using a computer-based modelling and simulation approach, and have now the conditions to use histidine decarboxylase as a target in histamine pharmacology....
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Pharmacology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0007-1188,1476-5381
DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2009.00219.x