Site-directed mutagenesis experiments on the putative deprotonation site of squalene-hopene cyclase from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 728-738

  Sato, Tsutomu ^a   Kouda, Masanori ^a   Hoshino, Tsutomu ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hopene; Squalene; Terpene cyclase; Triterpene

Indexed keywords

DIPLOPTENE; HOPANOL; MUTASE; SQUALENE; SQUALENE HOPENE CYCLASE; SQUALENE-HOPENE CYCLASE; TRITERPENE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; KINETICS; METABOLISM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CYCLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; KINETICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SQUALENE; TEMPERATURE; TRITERPENES;

ALICYCLOBACILLUS; ALICYCLOBACILLUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; HUMULUS; HUMULUS LUPULUS;

EID: 2942667525     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.68.728     Document Type: Article

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