Active-site residues and amino acid specificity of the bacterial 4′-phosphopantothenoylcysteine synthetase CoaB

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 163-172

  Kupke, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

4 phosphopantothenoylcysteine synthetase; 4 phosphopantetheine; Coenzyme A biosynthesis; Cysteine metabolism; Dfp flavoprotein

Indexed keywords

4' PHOSPHOPANTOTHENATE; 4' PHOSPHOPANTOTHENOYLCYSTEINE SYNTHETASE COAB; 4' PHOSPHOPANTOTHENOYLCYTIDINE PHOSPHATE; ALANINE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; COENZYME A; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PANTOTHENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 1642580513     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03916.x     Document Type: Article

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