Discovery of a new tetrahydrobiopterin-synthesizing enzyme in the lemon mutant of the silkworm Bombyx mori

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1297, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-199

  Iino, Teruhiko ^a   Sawada, Hiroshi ^b   Tsusué, Motoo ^b   Takikawa, Shin Ichiro ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis of tetrahydrobiopterin; Sepiapterin reductase; Silkworm lemon mutant; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

SEPIAPTERIN REDUCTASE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HYDROXYLATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; BIOPTERIN; BODY WEIGHT; BOMBYX; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; PTERINS; SEROTONIN;

BOMBYX MORI; CITRUS LIMON;

EID: 0030591774     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(96)00087-8     Document Type: Article

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