Characterization of a sulfurtransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 145-154

  Papenbrock, Jutta ^a   Schmidt, Ahlert ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

3 mercaptopyruvate; Arabidopsis thaliana; Rhodanese; Sulfurtransferase; Thiosulfate reductase

Indexed keywords

3 MERCAPTOPYRUVIC ACID; AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYANIDE; SULFURTRANSFERASE; THIOSULFATE; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANIDES; CYSTEINE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES, PLANT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOENZYMES; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFURTRANSFERASES; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; THIOSULFATES;

EID: 0033967461     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.00980.x     Document Type: Article

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