Leucine-764 near the extreme C-terminal end of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I is important for activity

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 301, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 758-763

  Dai, Jia ^a,b   Zhu, Hongfa ^a   Woldegiorgis, Gebre ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Leucine 764; Muscle carnitine palmitoyltransferase I; Native enzyme fold

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CARNITINE; CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; LEUCINE; LEUCINE 764; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; MALONYL COENZYME A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTANT; PICHIA PASTORIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

PICHIA PASTORIS;

EID: 0037436271     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)00042-1     Document Type: Article

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