A gene duplication led to specialized γ-aminobutyrate and β-alanine aminotransferase in yeast

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1804-1817

  Andersen, Gorm ^a,b   Andersen, Birgit ^b   Dobritzsch, Doreen ^c   Schnackerz, Klaus D ^b,d   Piškur, Jure ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aminotransferase; Gene duplication; Saccharomyces kluyveri; alanine; aminobutyrate

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BETA ALANINE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; PYRUVIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 33947244361     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.05729.x     Document Type: Article

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