ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from potato tuber: Site-directed mutagenesis of homologous aspartic acid residues in the small and large subunits

Plant Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 503-511

  Frueauf, Jeremiah B ^a   Ballicora, Miguel A ^a   Preiss, Jack ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase; Catalytic residue; Heterotetrameric enzymes; Site directed mutagenesis; Starch synthesis; Subunit function

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE;

CATALYTIC RESIDUES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ASPARTIC ACID; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOLANUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0037327287     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01643.x     Document Type: Article

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