Molecular modeling and site-directed mutagenesis reveal essential residues for catalysis in a prokaryote-type aspartate aminotransferase1[W][OA]

Plant Physiology

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1648-1660

  De La Torre, Fernando ^a   Moya García, Aurelio A ^a   Suárez, María Fernanda ^a   Rodríguez Caso, Carlos ^a   Cañas, Rafael A ^a   Sánchez Jiménez, Francisca ^a   Cánovas, Francisco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PHORMIDIUM LAPIDEUM; PINUS PINASTER; PROKARYOTA; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 65249116906     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.134510     Document Type: Article

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