Novel substrate specificity of glutathione synthesis enzymes from Streptococcus agalactiae and Clostridium acetobutylicum

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 352, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 351-359

  Kino, Kuniki ^a   Kuratsu, Shoko ^a   Noguchi, Atsushi ^a   Kokubo, Masahiro ^a   Nakazawa, Yuji ^a   Arai, Toshinobu ^a   Yagasaki, Makoto ^b   Kirimura, Kohtaro ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glutamylcysteine synthetase; Glutamylpeptide; Clostridium acetobutylicum; Glutathione; Glutathione synthetase; Streptococcus agalactiae

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRIPEPTIDE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 33751538620     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.11.016     Document Type: Article

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