Purification and kinetic properties of elisabethatriene synthase from the coral Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 269-278

  Brück, Thomas B ^a   Kerr, Russell G ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elisabethatriene synthase; Kinetic properties; Octocoral; Protein purification; Terpene

Indexed keywords

ALKENE DERIVATIVE; CARBON; DITERPENE; ELISABETHATRIENE SYNTHASE; GERANYLGERANYL PYROPHOSPHATE; GLYCOSIDE; ISOPRENOID; ISOPRENYL DIPHOSPHATE; PSEUDOPTEROSIN; PYROPHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SESQUITERPENE DERIVATIVE; SYNTHETASE; TERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CORAL; CYCLIZATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; KINETICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PSEUDOPTEROGORGIA ELISABETHAE; STEADY STATE;

ANTHOZOA; PSEUDOPTEROGORGIA ELISABETHAE;

EID: 33344476624     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.11.016     Document Type: Article

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