Trypanosoma brucei oleate desaturase may use a cytochrome b5-like domain in another desaturase as an electron donor

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1079-1086

  Petrini, Guillermo A ^a   Altabe, Silvia G ^a   Uttaro, Antonio D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cytochrome; Desaturation; Electron donor; Fatty acids; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; CYTOCHROME B5; FATTY ACID; HEXADECADIENOIC ACID; HISTIDINE; LINOLEIC ACID; OLEATE DESATURASE; OLEIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MORTIERELLA ALPINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B5; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MORTIERELLA; MORTIERELLA ALPINA; PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 1642271521     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04005.x     Document Type: Article

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