The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase (Erg19p) forms homodimers in vivo, and a single substitution in a structurally conserved region impairs dimerization

Current Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 290-294

  Cordier, Hélène ^a   Lacombe, Christian ^b   Karst, Francis ^a,c   Bergès, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b IBMIG Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et dIngenierie Genetique   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLYASE; MEVALONIC ACID; STEROL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEROL METABOLISM;

ADENINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CARBOXY-LYASES; CULTURE MEDIA; DIMERIZATION; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032959593     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006804     Document Type: Article

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