O-Demethylase from Acetobacterium dehalogenans: Substrate specificity and function of the participating proteins

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 706-711

  Kaufmann, Franz ^a   Wohlfarth, Gert ^a   Diekert, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetobacterium dehalogenans; Corrinoid protein; Ether cleavage; Methyltransferase; O demethylase

Indexed keywords

3 METHOXYPHENOL; 3,4,5 TRIMETHOXYBENZOIC ACID; FERREDOXIN; GUAIACOL; HYDROGENASE; ISOVANILLIC ACID; MEQUINOL; METHOXYBENZOIC ACID; O DEMETHYLASE; ORTHO ANISIDINE; PROTON; SYRINGIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLIC ACID; VERATRIC ACID; VERATROLE; VIOLOGEN;

ACETOBACTERACEAE; ACETOBACTERIUM DEHALOGENANS; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; DEMETHYLATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GRAM-POSITIVE RODS; KINETICS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES, O-DEMETHYLATING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TETRAHYDROFOLATES; VANILLIC ACID;

ACETOBACTERACEAE; ACETOBACTERIUM DEHALOGENANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032080155     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2530706.x     Document Type: Article

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