Mutational analysis of the role of the conserved lysine-270 in the Pichia stipitis xylose reductase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-112

  Kostrzynska, Magdalena ^a   Sopher, Coralie R ^a   Lee, Hung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coenzyme binding; Lysine; Pichia stipitis; Site directed mutagenesis; Xylose reductase; Yeast

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLITOL; XYLOSE; XYLOSE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; COENZYME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMYCETALES; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; FUNGUS GROWTH; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; COENZYMES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; LYSINE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PICHIA; PYRIDOXAL PHOSPHATE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

FUNGI; PICHIA STIPITIS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0032008240     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00555-7     Document Type: Article

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