The N-Terminal Amino Acid Sequences of the Firefly Luciferase Are Important for the Stability of the Enzyme

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 749-753

  Sung, Deukyong ^a   Kang, Hunseung ^a  

^a Kumho Life and Environ Sci Lab   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTINUS PYRALIS; PYRALIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

LUCIFERASE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BEETLES; ENZYME STABILITY; KINETICS; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032214182     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1998.tb02540.x     Document Type: Article

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