The role of protein surface charge in catalytic activity and chloroplast membrane association of the pea NADPH: Protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) as revealed by alanine scanning mutagenesis

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 309-323

  Dahlin, Clas ^a   Aronsson, Henrik ^a   Wilks, Helen M ^b,c   Lebedev, Nikolai ^b   Sundqvist, Christer ^a   Timko, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll biosynthesis; Chloroplast development; NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase; POR; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CATALYSIS; CHLOROPLAST; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MEMBRANE; MUTAGENESIS; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTOCHLOROPHYLLIDE OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATALYSIS; CHLOROPLASTS; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; PEAS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

PISUM SATIVUM; SATIVUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0033063166     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006135100760     Document Type: Article

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