Luminescent and substrate binding activities of firefly luciferase N-terminal domain

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1649, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-189

  Zako, Tamotsu ^a,b   Ayabe, Keiichi ^a   Aburatani, Takahide ^a   Kamiya, Noriho ^a,c   Kitayama, Atsushi ^a,d   Ueda, Hiroshi ^a   Nagamune, Teruyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ATP binding; Luminescent activity; The N terminal domain; Truncated firefly luciferase

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (MAGNESIUM); ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID; COENZYME A; LUCIFERASE; OXYGEN; PHOTOPROTEIN; LUCIFERIN; MAGNESIUM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; COENZYME A; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIREFLY LUCIFERIN; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MAGNESIUM; PROTEIN BINDING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0142152331     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-9639(03)00179-1     Document Type: Article

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