Determination of the sites required for the allosteric inhibition of serine acetyltransferase by L-cysteine in plants

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 220-227

  Inoue, Kenji ^b   Noji, Masaaki ^b   Saito, Kazuki ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cysteine biosynthesis; Feedback inhibition; Plants; Serine acetyltransferase; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; CYSTEINE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEEDBACK; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 2442696023     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00847.x     Document Type: Article

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