L-cysteine desulfidase: An [4Fe-4S] enzyme isolated from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii that catalyzes the breakdown of L-cysteine into pyruvate, ammonia, and sulfide

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1659-1670

  Tchong, Shih I ^a   Xu, Huimin ^a   White, Robert H ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CATALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; GENES; SULFUR;

GEL FILTRATION; PYRIDOXAL PHOSPHATE (PHP); PYRUVATES;

ENZYMES;

3 MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; ACONITATE HYDRATASE; AMMONIA; CYSTEINE; DITHIOTHREITOL; EDETIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; IODOACETAMIDE; IRON; MERCAPTAMINE; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; PYRUVIC ACID; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; SULFIDE; THREONINE DEHYDRATASE;

AIR; ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; ELIMINATION REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALF LIFE TIME; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMMONIA; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CATALYSIS; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA-LYASE; CYSTEINE; ENZYME STABILITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; METHANOCOCCUS; PYRUVIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFIDES; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOCOCCUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 13444311798     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0484769     Document Type: Article

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