Paracoccus denitrificans aromatic amino acid aminotransferase: A model enzyme for the study of dual substrate recognition mechanism

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 161-171

  Oue, Shinya ^a   Okamoto, Akihiro ^a   Nakai, Yumi ^a   Nakahira, Masakiyo ^a   Shibatani, Takeji ^b   Hayashi, Hideyuki ^a   Kagamiyama, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatic amino acid aminotransferase; Aspartate aminotransferase; Paracoccus denitrificans; Pyridoxal 5' phosphate; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; AMINOTRANSFERASE; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSAMINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS;

EID: 0031014286     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021561     Document Type: Article

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