Tungsten-containing aldehyde oxidoreductase of Eubacterium acidaminophilum: Isolation, characterization and molecular analysis

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 212-219

  Rauh, David ^a   Graentzdoerffer, Andrea ^a   Granderath, Katrin ^a   Andreesen, Jan R ^a,b   Pich, Andreas ^a,c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b Institut für Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

^c Institut für Pathologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aldehyde oxidoreductase; Eubacterium acidaminophilum; Pyranopterin cofactor; Transcriptional regulation; Tungsten

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BENZALDEHYDE; BETAINE; BUTYRALDEHYDE; DNA; FORMIC ACID; ISOVALERALDEHYDE; MOLYBDENUM; MONOMER; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROPIONALDEHYDE; PTERIN DERIVATIVE; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; ZINC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CISTRON; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM ACIDAMINOPHILUM; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EUBACTERIUM; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TUNGSTEN;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); AORA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUBACTERIUM ACIDAMINOPHILUM; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 1642458109     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.03922.x     Document Type: Article

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