The key step in chlorophyll breakdown in higher plants. Cleavage of pheophorbide a macrocycle by a monooxygenase

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 273, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 15335-15339

  Hörtensteiner, Stefan ^a,c   Wüthrich, Karin Lynn ^a   Matile, Philippe ^a   Ongania, Karl Hans ^b   Kräutler, Bernhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CATALYSIS; CHLORELLA; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; FAST ATOM BOMBARDMENT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

CHLORELLA; CHLOROPHYLL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXYGENASES; PLANTS; PORPHYRINS; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, FAST ATOM BOMBARDMENT;

EID: 0032546794     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.25.15335     Document Type: Article

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