Dihydropyrimidine amidohydrolases and dihydroorotases share the same origin and several enzymatic properties

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1683-1692

  Gojkovic, Zoran ^c   Rislund, Lise ^c   Andersen, Birgit ^c   Sandrini, Michael P B ^c   Cook, Paul F ^a   Schnackerz, Klaus D ^b   Piškur, Jure ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA ALANINE; COENZYME A; DIHYDROOROTASE; DIHYDROPYRIMIDINASE; LIVER ENZYME; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; ZINC ION;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EUKARYOTE; INSECT; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOULD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DIHYDROOROTASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; KINETICS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI;

EID: 0037444115     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg258     Document Type: Review

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