Identification of an amino acid position that determines the substrate range of integral membrane alkane hydroxylases

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-91

  Van Beilen, Jan B ^a   Smits, Theo H M ^a,b   Roos, Franz F ^a   Brunner, Tobias ^a   Balada, Stefanie B ^a   Röthlisberger, Martina ^a   Witholt, Bernard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKANE HYDROXYLASE; ALKB ALKANE HYDROXYLASE; ALKB1 ALKANE HYDROXYLASE; CYSTEINE; LEUCINE; MEMBRANE ENZYME; OXYGENASE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCANIVORAX BORKUMENSIS AP1; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; CODON; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; HOST; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYDROXYLATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA GPO1; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ALKANE 1-MONOOXYGENASE; ALKANES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HALOMONADACEAE; HYDROXYLATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ALCANIVORAX BORKUMENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 11144307432     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.1.85-91.2005     Document Type: Article

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