Substrate-specific selenoprotein B of glycine reductase from Eubacterium acidaminophilum. Biochemical and molecular analysis

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 38-49

  Wagner, Matthias ^a   Sonntag, Denise ^a   Grimm, Rudolf ^b   Pich, Andreas ^a   Eckerskorn, Christoph ^c   Söhling, Brigitte ^a   Andreesen, Jan R ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b Toplab   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Betaine reductase; Eubacterium acidaminophilum; Glycine reductase; Sarcosine reductase; Selenocysteine

Indexed keywords

1,2 PHENYLENEDIAMINE; BETAINE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CYSTEINE; DNA FRAGMENT; FLUORESCEIN; GLYCINE REDUCTASE; SARCOSINE; SELENITE; SELENIUM 75; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN; SELENOPROTEIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM ACIDAMINOPHILUM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EUBACTERIUM; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PROTEINS; SELENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SELENOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUBACTERIUM ACIDAMINOPHILUM;

EID: 0033557423     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00107.x     Document Type: Article

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