Mutagenesis of specific amino acids converts carnitine acetyltransferase into carnitine palmitoyltransferase

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6133-6141

  Cordente, Antonio G ^a   López Viñas, Eduardo ^b   Vázquez, María Irene ^a   Gómez Puertas, Paulino ^b   Asins, Guillermina ^a   Serra, Dolors ^a   Hegardt, Fausto G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYSIS; FATTY ACIDS; MUTAGENESIS; SUBSTRATES;

ACYL GROUPS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTIONS; FATTY ACYL-CHAIN-LENGTH SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR MODELING PROCEDURES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARNITINE; CARNITINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINE; COENZYME A; PALMITOYL COENZYME A; STEAROYL COENZYME A; THREONINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; COMPUTER MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CARNITINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CARNITINE O-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; FLUOROMETRY; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RADIOMETRY; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646592906     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0602664     Document Type: Article

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