Suspected utility of enzymes with multiple activities in the small genome Mycoplasma species: The replacement of the missing "household" nucleoside diphosphate kinase gene and activity by glycolytic kinases

OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 247-258

  Pollack, J Dennis ^a   Myers, Melissa A ^a,b   Dandekar, Thomas ^c,d   Herrmann, Richard ^e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Magellan Laboratories   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENOME; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ACETATE KINASE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GLYCOLYSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MYCOPLASMA; NUCLEOSIDE-DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; OXYGEN; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE-1; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PYRUVATE KINASE; SILVER STAINING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM SUBSP. CAPRICOLUM; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 0036407027     PISSN: 15362310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/15362310260256909     Document Type: Article

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