Characterization of SCP-2 from Euphorbia lagascae reveals that a single Leu/Met exchange enhances sterol transfer activity

FEBS Journal

Volumn 273, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 5641-5655

  Viitanen, Lenita ^a   Nylund, Matts ^a   Eklund, D Magnus ^b   Alm, Christina ^b   Eriksson, Ann Katrin ^b   Tuuf, Jessica ^a   Salminen, Tiina A ^a   Mattjus, Peter ^a   Edqvist, Johan ^b,c  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

oxidation; Lipid transfer protein; Peroxisome; Sterol; Sterol carrier protein 2

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE DERIVATIVE; PALMITIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; STEAROYL COENZYME A; STEROL; STEROL CARRIER PROTEIN 2; STEROL DERIVATIVE; VERNOLIC ACID;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENDOSPERM; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA LAGASCAE; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GERMINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEROXISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BORON COMPOUNDS; CARRIER PROTEINS; EUPHORBIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PALMITIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STEROLS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUPHORBIA LAGASCAE;

EID: 33845505705     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05553.x     Document Type: Article

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