Substrate specificity of glutaminyl cyclases from plants and animals

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 384, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1583-1592

  Schilling, Stephan ^a   Manhart, Susanne ^a   Hoffmann, Torsten ^a   Ludwig, Hans Henning ^a   Wasternack, Claus ^b   Demuth, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a PROBIODRUG AG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homoglutamine; 5 Oxo L proline; Glutamine cyclotransferase; Pyroglutamic acid

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDASE; ENZYME; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; GASTRIN; GLUTAMINE DERIVATIVE; GLUTAMINYL CYCLASE; NEUROTENSIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PAPAYA; PH; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CARICA; CATALYSIS; CATTLE; CYCLIZATION; DIPEPTIDES; ENZYME STABILITY; GASTRINS; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMINE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; KINETICS; NAD; NEUROTENSIN; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

ANIMALIA; CARICA PAPAYA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0346728541     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2003.175     Document Type: Article

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