Mutations that cause threonine sensitivity identify catalytic and regulatory regions of the aspartate kinase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Yeast

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1331-1345

  Arévalo Rodríguez, Miguel ^a,b   Calderón, Isabel L ^a   Holmberg, Steen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Allosteric regulation; Aspartate kinase; Threonine biosynthesis; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ASPARTATE KINASE; ASPARTIC ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALLELES; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTATE KINASE; CATALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THREONINE;

EID: 0344131962     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19990930)15:13<1331::AID-YEA460>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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