Mutagenesis evidence that the partial reactions of firefly bioluminescence are catalyzed by different conformations of the luciferase C-terminal domain

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1385-1393

  Branchini, Bruce R ^a   Southworth, Tara L ^a   Murtiashaw, Martha H ^a   Wilkinson, Sara R ^a   Khattak, Neelum F ^a   Rosenberg, Justin C ^a   Zimmer, Marc ^a  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; LUMINESCENCE; OXIDATION; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

LIGHT EMITTER OXYLUCIFERIN; MULTISTEP OXIDATION;

MUTAGENESIS;

ACETYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE; LUCIFERASE; LYSINE;

ADENYLATION; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; MUTAGENESIS; OXIDATION; PHOTINUS PYRALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; COENZYME A; FIREFLIES; KINETICS; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; LUMINESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

COLEOPTERA; PHOTINUS PYRALIS; PYRALIS;

EID: 13444269219     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi047903f     Document Type: Article

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