Insights into the substrate specificity of plant peptide deformylase, an essential enzyme with potential for the development of novel biotechnology applications in agriculture

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 413, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 417-427

  Dirk, Lynnette M A ^a   Schmidt, Jack J ^b   Cai, Yiying ^b   Barnes, Jonathan C ^a   Hanger, Katherine M ^c   Nayak, Nihar R ^a   Williams, Mark A ^a   Grossman, Robert B ^a   Houtz, Robert L ^a   Rodgers, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c University of Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinonin; Arabidopsis; Chloroplast; Co translational; Peptide deformylase; Protein processing

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; COLLOIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD ADDITIVES; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GELATION; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYPEPTIDES; POROUS MATERIALS; POWDERS; SUBSTRATES;

ACTIVE SITES; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA (ELIP); BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DEFORMYLASE; GEL-FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN PLANTS; N TERMINALS; PEPTIDE DEFORMYLASE; PHOTOSYSTEM II (PS II); SUBSTRATE BINDING (SBD); SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PEPTIDE DEFORMYLASE; POLYPEPTIDE;

AGRICULTURE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN BOND; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TYROSINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 48249100930     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20071641     Document Type: Article

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