ATP-dependent glucokinase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima represents an extremely thermophilic ROK glucokinase with high substrate specificity

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 405-411

  Hansen, Thomas ^a   Schönheit, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATP dependent glucokinase; Embden Meyerhof pathway; Hyperthermophilic bacteria; ROK; Thermostability; Thermotoga maritima

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYGLUCOSE; DIMER; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE; MANNOSE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REPRESSOR GENE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMOTOGA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CATALYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYGLUCOSE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRUCTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE; HEAT; MANNOSE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 0642285645     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00642-6     Document Type: Article

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