Essential role of residue H49 for activity of Escherichia coli 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase, the enzyme catalyzing the first step of the 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate pathway for isoprenoid synthesis

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 155-160

  Querol, Jordi ^a   Rodríguez Concepción, Manuel ^a   Boronat, Albert ^a   Imperial, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

1 deoxy D xylulose 5 phosphate synthase; Isoprenoid biosynthesis; Site directed mutagenesis; Transketolase

Indexed keywords

1 DEOXY DEXTRO XYLULOSE 5 PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; ISOPRENOID; SYNTHETASE; TRANSKETOLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNTHESIS; YEAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0035941120     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5957     Document Type: Article

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