Parasite-specific inserts in the bifunctional S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase/ornithine decarboxylase of Plasmodium falciparum modulate catalytic activities and domain interactions

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 377, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 439-448

  Birkholtz, Lyn Marie ^a   Wrenger, Carsten ^b   Joubert, Fourie ^a   Wells, Gordon A ^a   Walter, Rolf D ^b   Louw, Abraham I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Malaria; Plasmodium specific insert; Polyamine; Protein interaction

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; DISEASES; ENZYMES; METABOLISM; MICROORGANISMS;

PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ADENOSYLMETHIONINE DECARBOXYLASE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ADENOSYLMETHIONINE DECARBOXYLASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0942301186     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20030614     Document Type: Article

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