The role of his113 and his114 in pyruvate decarboxylase from zymomonas mobilis

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-71

  Schenk, Gerhard ^a   Leeper, Finian J ^b   England, Renee ^a   Nixon, Peter F ^a   Duggleby, Ronald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Pyruvate decarboxylase; Site directed mutagenesis; Substrate binding; Zymomonas mobilis

Indexed keywords

PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0030874266     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.t01-1-00063.x     Document Type: Article

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