Molecular characterization of membrane-associated soluble serine palmitoyltransferases from Sphingobacterium multivorum and Bdellovibrio stolpii

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5749-5761

  Ikushiro, Hiroko ^a   Islam, Mohammad Mainul ^a,c   Tojo, Hiromasa ^b   Hayashi, Hideyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 1 HYDROXY 3 OCTADECANONE; AMINO ACID; PALMITOYL COENZYME A; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; SERINE; SERINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; SPHINGOLIPID; SPHINGOSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO STOLPII; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPHINGOBACTERIUM; SPHINGOBACTERIUM MULTIVORUM; SPHINGOBACTERIUM SPIRITIVORUM; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BDELLOVIBRIO; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALMITOYL COENZYME A; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE C-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPHINGOBACTERIUM; SPHINGOSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOVORAX STOLPII; BDELLOVIBRIO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SPHINGOBACTERIUM; SPHINGOBACTERIUM MULTIVORUM; SPHINGOBACTERIUM SPIRITIVORUM; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

EID: 34547644851     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00194-07     Document Type: Article

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