The first archaeal ATP-dependent glucokinase, from the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Aeropyrum pernix, represents a monomeric, extremely thermophilic ROK glucokinase with broad hexose specificity

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 5955-5965

  Hansen, Thomas ^a   Reichstein, Bianca ^a   Schmid, Roland ^a   Schönheit, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSAMINE; HEXOSE; MANNOSE;

AEROPYRUM PERNIX; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRENARCHAEOTA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; START CODON; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOSTABILITY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DESULFUROCOCCACEAE; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOKINASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

AEROPYRUM; AEROPYRUM PERNIX; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036837983     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.21.5955-5965.2002     Document Type: Article

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