Mutation of Gly-444 inactivates the S. pombe malic enzyme

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 157-162

  Viljoen, Marinda ^a   Van Der Merwe, Marizeth ^a   Subden, Ron E ^b   Van Vuuren, Hendrik J J ^c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

mae2; Malate; Malic enzyme; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); MALIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; EUKARYOTE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GLYCINE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031725820     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00382-6     Document Type: Article

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