Activation of active-site cysteine residues in the peroxiredoxin-type tryparedoxin peroxidase of crithidia fasciculata

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 516-524

  Montemartini, Marisa ^b   Kalisz, Henryk M ^a   Hecht, Hans Jürgen ^a   Steinert, Peter ^b   Flohé, Leopold ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b c/o GBF ^*

Author keywords

Active site; Crithidia fasciculata; Trypanothione; Tryparedoxin; Tryparedoxin peroxidase

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; PEROXIDASE; TRYPANOTHIONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; DISULFIDES; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEROXIDASES; PEROXIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE (NADPH); YEASTS;

CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0033200161     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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