Euglena gracilis ascorbate peroxidase forms an intramolecular dimeric structure: Its unique molecular characterization

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 426, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-134

  Ishikawa, Takahiro ^a,c   Tajima, Naoko ^a   Nishikawa, Hitoshi ^a   Gao, Yongshun ^a   Rapolu, Madhusudhan ^a,b   Shibata, Hitoshi ^a   Sawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Shigeoka, Shigeru ^b  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascorbate peroxidase; Euglena gracilis Z; Full length cDNA cloning; Intramolecular dimer structure; Recombinant expression

Indexed keywords

ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FULL-LENGTH CDNA; INTRAMOLECULAR DIMERS; RECOMBINANT EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENE EXPRESSION; ORGANIC ACIDS; RNA;

ENZYMES;

ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE; ASCORBIC ACID; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EUGLENA GRACILIS; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTOZOAL GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; DIMERIZATION; EUGLENA GRACILIS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEROXIDASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS;

EID: 76549101974     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20091406     Document Type: Article

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