Purification, characterization, and mechanism of a flavin mononucleotide-dependent 2-nitropropane dioxygenase from Neurospora crassa

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1029-1033

  Gorlatova, Natalia ^a   Tchorzewski, Marek ^a   Kurihara, Tatsuo ^a   Soda, Kenji ^b   Esaki, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 NITROPROPANE DIOXYGENASE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; FLAVOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PURIFICATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0031909037     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.3.1029-1033.1998     Document Type: Article

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