Mutational analysis of the Trypanosoma vivax alternative oxidase: The E(X)6Y motif is conserved in both mitochondrial alternative oxidase and plastid terminal oxidase and is indispensable for enzyme activity

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 334, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 593-600

  Nakamura, Kosuke ^a   Sakamoto, Kimitoshi ^a   Kido, Yasutoshi ^a   Fujimoto, Yoko ^a   Suzuki, Takashi ^b   Suzuki, Mitsuko ^b   Yabu, Yoshisada ^b   Ohta, Nobuo ^b   Tsuda, Akiko ^c   Onuma, Misao ^c   Kita, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascofuranone; Diiron binding motif; Diiron carboxylate proteins; Escherichia coli expression; Mutagenesis; Trypanosome alternative oxidase

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLASTIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX;

EID: 22144485926     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.06.131     Document Type: Article

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