Purification, properties, and partial amino acid sequences of alanine racemase from the muscle of the black tiger prawn Penaeus monodon

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 445-453

  Yoshikawa, Naoko ^a   Dhomae, Naoshi ^b   Takio, Koji ^b   Abe, Hiroki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alanine racemase; Amino acid sequence; D Alanine; D Amino acid; Enzymatic properties; Isolation; Penaeus monodon; Prawn

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE RACEMASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DEXTRO ALANINE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GEL FILTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHRIMP; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PENAEIDAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; MONODON; PANTHERA TIGRIS; PENAEUS MONODON;

ALANINE RACEMASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; PENAEIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0036848173     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-4959(02)00187-2     Document Type: Article

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