Pregnenolone metabolized to 17α-hydroxyprogesterone in yeast: Biochemical analysis of a metabolic pathway

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 239-246

  Degryse, E ^a   Cauet, G ^a   Spagnoli, R ^b   Achstetter, T ^a  

^a TRANSGENE S A   (France)

^b Hoechst Marion Roussel ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; 3 BETA HYDROXYSTEROID OXIDOREDUCTASE DELTA(5) 3 KETOSTEROID ISOMERASE; 3 BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID OXIDOREDUCTASE-DELTA(5) 3-KETOSTEROID ISOMERASE; 3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID DELTA ISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; YEAST; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE REDUCTASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROID ISOMERASES;

EID: 0033233310     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0760(99)00137-5     Document Type: Article

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