Identification of Drosophila melanogaster yellow-f and yellow-f2 proteins as dopachrome-conversion enzymes

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 333-340

  Han, Qian ^a   Fang, Jianmin ^a   Ding, Haizhen ^a   Johnson, Jody K ^b   Christensen, Bruce M ^b   Li, Jianyong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

3,4 dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa); Dopa methyl ester; Dopamine; Melanization

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ISOMERIZATION; RNA;

TRANSCRIPTION;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

5,6 DIHYDROXYINDOLE; DOPACHROME; DOPAMINE; GENE PRODUCT; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW F PROTEIN; YELLOW F2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS EXPRESSION SYSTEM; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DECARBOXYLATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INSECT CELL; ISOMERISM; LARVA; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBOXY-LYASES; DOPAMINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INDOLEQUINONES; INDOLES; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; ISOENZYMES; ISOMERASES; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; QUINONES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0037113251     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20020272     Document Type: Article

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