CTP:Phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism

Volumn 1348, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 79-90

  Kent, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

CDP choline; Membrane binding; Nucleotidyltransferase; Phosphatidylcholine; Phosphocholine; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHOLINE-PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031553042     PISSN: 00052760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2760(97)00112-4     Document Type: Review

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