Alanine 101 and alanine 110 of the alpha subunit of Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase influence the regiospecific oxidation of aromatics

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 652-658

  Vardar, Gönül ^a   Tao, Ying ^a   Lee, Jintae ^a   Wood, Thomas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Methoxyphenol; Naphthalene; Regiospecific oxidation; Saturation mutagenesis cresols; Toluene monooxygenase; Xylene

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYMES; MUTAGENESIS; NAPHTHALENE; OXIDATION; PHENOLS; TOLUENE; YEAST;

METHOXYPHENOL; REGIOSPECIFIC OXIDATION; SATURATION MUTAGENESIS CRESOLS; TOLUENE MONOOXYGENASE;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

3 METHOXYCATECHOL; 4 METHOXYCATECHOL; 4 METHOXYRESORCINOL; ALANINE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; ENZYME VARIANT; GUAIACOL; HYDROQUINONE DERIVATIVE; MEQUINOL; META CRESOL; METHYLHYDROQUINONE; NAPHTHALENE; NITROBENZENE; ORTHO CRESOL; ORTHO XYLENE; PARA CRESOL; PHENOL; TOLUENE; TOLUENE ORTHO XYLENE MONOOXYGENASE ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SATURATION MUTAGENESIS; STEREOSPECIFICITY; SYNTHESIS; WILD TYPE;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGENASES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 29544438675     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.20637     Document Type: Article

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