Structural model of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I based on the carnitine acetyltransferase crystal

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 379, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 777-784

  Morillas, Montserrat ^a   López Viñas, Eduardo ^b   Valencia, Alfonso ^c   Serra, Dolors ^a   Gómez Puertas, Paulino ^b   Hegardt, Fausto G ^a   Asins, Guillermina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carnitine acetyltransferase; Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I; Docking analysis; Fatty acid oxidation; Site directed mutagenesis; Three dimensional structural model

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYSIS; FATTY ACIDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; PATIENT MONITORING;

MUTATION; PALMITOYL GROUPS;

ENZYMES;

AMINO ACID; CARNITINE; CARNITINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; COENZYME A; LIVER ENZYME; SERINE; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARNITINE; CARNITINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CARNITINE O-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; COENZYME A; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PALMITOYL COENZYME A; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 2542614421     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20031373     Document Type: Article

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