Sulphonation of dehydroepiandrosterone and neurosteroids: Molecular cloning, expression, and functional characterization of a novel zebrafish SULT2 cytosolic sulphotransferase

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 375, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 785-791

  Sugahara, Takuya ^a,b   Yang, Yuh Shyong ^a   Liu, Chau Ching ^c   Pai, T Govind ^a   Liu, Ming Cheh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA); Molecular cloning; Neurosteroid; Sulphotransferase; SULT2; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; DNA; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

NEUROSTEROIDS; STIMULATORY EFFECTS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

CADMIUM; COPPER; CYTOSOLIC SULFOTRANSFERASE; IRON; MERCURY; NEUROSTEROID; PRASTERONE; SULFOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSOL; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STEROIDS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFONIC ACIDS; SULFOTRANSFERASES; TEMPERATURE; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0242552238     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20031050     Document Type: Article

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