A new perspective on thiamine catalysis

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 335-342

  Pohl, Martina ^a   Sprenger, Georg A ^b   Müller, Michael ^c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

(R) PAC; (R) phenylacetylcarbinol; acetohydroxyacid synthase; acetolactate synthase; AHAS; ALS; BAL; benzaldehyde lyase; benzoylformate decarboxylase; BFD; PDC; pyruvate decarboxylase; ThDP; thiamine diphosphate

Indexed keywords

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; ALDEHYDE; CARBON; CARBOXYLYASE; LIGASE; LYASE; NITROGEN; PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE; THIAMINE; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATASE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TRANSKETOLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL BOND; DECARBOXYLATION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTON TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; CATALYSIS; LIGASES; LYASES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 3543096786     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2004.06.002     Document Type: Review

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