A thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus has three different class I prenyltransferase genes

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 307-321

  Ohto, Chikara ^a,b   Ishida, Chika ^a   Nakane, Hiroyuki ^a   Muramatsu, Masayoshi ^a   Nishino, Tokuzo ^b   Obata, Shusei ^a  

^a TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Phylogenetic tree; Prenyltransferase; Recombinant enzyme; Synechococcus elongatus; Thermophilic cyanobacterium; Thermostable enzyme

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CATALYSIS; CLONED GENE; DIMETHYLALLYL DIPHOSPHATE; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; GERANYLFARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; HEPTAPRENYL DIPHOSPHATE; HEXAPRENYL DIPHOSPHATE; ISOPENTENYL PYROPHOSPHATE; PHYLOGENY; PRENYL DIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS ELONGATUS;

EID: 0033137040     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006295705142     Document Type: Article

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