Multiple isoforms of choline kinase from Caenorhabditis elegans: Cloning, expression, purification, and characterization

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1648, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 33-42

  Gee, Patricia ^a   Kent, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Choline; Choline kinase; Ethanolamine kinase; Phosphatidylcholine; Phosphocholine

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE KINASE; ETHANOLAMINE KINASE; GLYCEROL; ISOENZYME; CHOLINE; MAGNESIUM; MEMBRANE LIPID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEDIMENTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STOP CODON;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINE; CHOLINE KINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, TERMINATOR; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; MAGNESIUM; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0037629969     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-9639(03)00106-7     Document Type: Article

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