Molecular cloning, expression and characterization of a novel class glutathione S-transferase from the fungus Cunninghamella elegans

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 368, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 589-595

  Cha, Chang Jun ^a   Kim, Seong Jae ^a   Kim, Yong Hak ^a   Stingley, Robin ^a   Cerniglia, Carl E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungal enzyme; Overexpression; Sequence analysis; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; GENES; RNA;

OPEN READING FRAMES;

ENZYMES;

1 CHLORO 2,4 DINITROBENZENE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CUMENE HYDROPEROXIDE; ETACRYNIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNNINGHAMELLA; DETOXIFICATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SQUID; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CUNNINGHAMELLA; DINITROCHLOROBENZENE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CEPHALOPODA; CUNNINGHAMELLA ELEGANS; DANIO RERIO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FUNGI; HEPATICA; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; MYXOGASTRIA; OMMASTREPHES SLOANI; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS;

EID: 0036903547     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20020400     Document Type: Article

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