Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ferredoxin oxidoreductase (GAPOR) and nonphosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPN), key enzymes of the respective modified Embden-Meyerhof pathways in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeota Pyrobaculum aerophilum and Aeropyrum pernix

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 196-205

  Reher, Matthias ^a   Gebhard, Susanne ^a   Schönheit, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aeropyrum pernix; Glyceraldehydes 3 phosphate ferredoxin oxidoreductase; Modified Embden Meyerhof pathway; Nonphosphorylating glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase; Pyrobaculum aerophilum

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; ACETALDEHYDE; ENOLASE; FORMALDEHYDE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE FERREDOXIN OXIDOREDUCTASE; MALTOSE; NITRATE; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE; PYRUVATE KINASE; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROPYRUM PERNIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PYROBACULUM AEROPHILUM; THERMOSTABILITY; YEAST;

AEROPYRUM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; GLYCOLYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PYROBACULUM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

AEROPYRUM PERNIX; CRENARCHAEOTA; PYROBACULUM AEROPHILUM;

EID: 34447515979     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00787.x     Document Type: Article

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