Nitrilase of Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1: Conversion into the active form by subunit association

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 138-144

  Nagasawa, Toru ^a   Wieser, Marco ^a   Nakamura, Tetsuji ^b   Iwahara, Hitomi ^c   Yoshida, Toyokazu ^a   Gekko, Kunihiko ^d  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nitrilase; Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1; Substrate specificity; Subunit association

Indexed keywords

ACRYLONITRILE; BENZONITRILE; MERCURY CHLORIDE; METHACRYLONITRILE; NITRILASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE;

ACRYLONITRILE; AMINOHYDROLASES; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CAPROLACTAM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; GLYCEROL; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NITRILES; PENTANES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RHODOCOCCUS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033962871     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.00983.x     Document Type: Article

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