Defining the role of phosphomethylethanolamine N-methyltransferase from Caenorhabditis elegans in phosphocholine biosynthesis by biochemical and kinetic analysis

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6056-6065

  Palavalli, Lavanya H ^a   Brendza, Katherine M ^b   Haakenson, William ^b   Cahoon, Rebecca E ^a   McLaird, Merry ^b   Hicks, Leslie M ^a   McCarter, James P ^b   Williams, D Jeremy ^b   Hresko, Michelle C ^b   Jez, Joseph M ^a  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Divergence Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONING; METABOLISM; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; REACTION KINETICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

KINETIC MECHANISM; NEMATODE CAENORHABDITIS; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE METHYLTRANSFERASE (PEAMT); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ENZYMES;

ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; ETHANOLAMINE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHODIMETHYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHOMETHYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOMONOMETHYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PROTEIN PMT 2; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRONOMY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL VIABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; FLUORESCENCE; GENE; METHYLATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PMT 2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; TITRIMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; KINETICS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33646551822     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi060199d     Document Type: Article

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