Posttranslational activation, site-directed mutation and phylogenetic analyses of the lysine biosynthesis enzymes α-aminoadipate reductase Lyslp (AAR) and the phosphopantetheinyl transferase Lys7p (PPTase) from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Yeast

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1279-1288

  Guo, Shujuan ^a   Bhattacharjee, J K ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lys1p AAR; Lys7p PPTase; Lysine biosynthesis; Phylogenetic tree; Posttranslational activation; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOADIPIC ACID; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COENZYME A; FUNGAL PROTEIN; LYSINE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PANTETHEINE PHOSPHATE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; TRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SIMILARITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; L-AMINOADIPATE-SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS);

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 10244227866     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1179     Document Type: Article

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