Structural Insight into Chain-Length Control and Product Specificity of Pentaketide Chromone Synthase from Aloe arborescens

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 359-369

  Morita, Hiroyuki ^a   Kondo, Shin ^b   Oguro, Satoshi ^c   Noguchi, Hiroshi ^c   Sugio, Shigetoshi ^b   Abe, Ikuro ^c,d   Kohno, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KAGAKU INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b ZOEGENE Corporation   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CHEMBIOL

Indexed keywords

CHROMONE DERIVATIVE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ALOE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALOE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITES; CHROMONES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALOE; ALOE ARBORESCENS;

EID: 34247239393     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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