Purification, characterization and functional cloning of inositol oxygenase from Cryptococcus

Yeast

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1317-1329

  Kanter, Ulrike ^a   Becker, Michael ^b   Friauf, Eckhard ^b   Tenhaken, Raimund ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus lactativorus; Glucuronic acid; Inositol metabolism; Inositol oxygenase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME PRECURSOR; GLUCURONIC ACID; INOSITOL; IRON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; OXYGENASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; POTASSIUM CYANIDE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LACTATIVORUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA STRAND; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENERGY YIELD; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGUS; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AGAROSE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INOSITOL OXYGENASE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXYGENASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SPOROPACHYDERMIA LACTATIVORA;

EID: 0346882678     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1050     Document Type: Article

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