Functional dissection of a trigger enzyme: Mutations of the bacillus subtilis glutamate dehydrogenase RocG that affect differentially its catalytic activity and regulatory properties

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 400, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 815-827

  Gunka, Katrin ^a   Newman, Joseph A ^b   Commichau, Fabian M ^a   Herzberg, Christina ^a   Rodrigues, Cecilia ^b   Hewitt, Lorraine ^b   Lewis, Richard J ^b   Stülke, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bifunctional enzyme; Glutamate metabolism; Moonlighting proteins; Protein protein interaction; Trigger enzyme

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUDB1 ENZYME; ROCG ENZYME; ROCG(E93K) ENZYME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLTC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 77954383542     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.05.055     Document Type: Article

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