Role of glutamic acid residues 154, 155, and 165 of lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase in cholesterol esterification and phospholipase A2 activities

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-58

  Wang, Jingchuan ^a   DeLozier, Jeanine A ^a   Gebre, Abraham K ^a   Dolphin, Peter J ^b   Parks, John S ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apolipoprotein A I; Apolipoprotein E; COS cells; Enzyme activity; Glutamic acid; LCAT; Recombinant HDL mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE STEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL ESTERIFICATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL ESTERS; COS CELLS; ESTERIFICATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE-STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031929701     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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