title: The MutT proteins or "Nudix" hydrolases, a family of versatile, widely distributed, "housecleaning" enzymes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and The McCollum-Pratt Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bessman
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Frick
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: O'Handley
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D004261:DNA Replication; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011755:Pyrophosphatases; D051381:Rats; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000201:enzymology; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C086972:MutX protein, Streptococcus pneumoniae; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases; D011755:Pyrophosphatases; C052211:mutT protein, E coli