An alternative mechanism of product chain-length determination in type III geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2186-2194

  Hemmi, Hisashi ^a   Noike, Motoyoshi ^a   Nakayama, Toru ^a   Nishino, Tokuzo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase; Hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase; Molecular evolution; Mutagenesis; Prenyltransferase

Indexed keywords

ALLYL COMPOUND; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSFERASE; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; GERANYLGERANYL DIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE 3; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE; PRENYL DIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; PYROPHOSPHATE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLYLIC REARRANGEMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUKARYOTE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ALLELES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FARNESYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0038531133     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03583.x     Document Type: Article

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