Substrate specificity of and product formation by muconate cycloisomerases: An analysis of wild-type enzymes and engineered variants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3290-3299

  Vollmer, Martin Dominik ^a,e   Hoier, Helga ^a,f   Hecht, Hans Jürgen ^b   Schell, Ursula ^c   Gröning, Janosch ^a   Goldman, Adrian ^c,d   Schlömann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c TURKU CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOMERASE; MUCONATE CYCLOISOMERASE; MUCONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ARTICLE; DEHALOGENATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0031684925     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3290-3299.1998     Document Type: Article

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