A novel prokaryotic l-arginine: Glycine amidinotransferase is involved in cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3844-3860

  Muenchhoff, Julia ^a   Siddiqui, Khawar S ^a   Poljak, Anne ^a   Raftery, Mark J ^a   Barrow, Kevin D ^a   Neilan, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

amidinotransferase; cyanobacterial toxin; enzyme kinetics; protein stability; toxin biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN; GLYCINE AMIDINOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMIDINOTRANSFERASES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; URACIL;

CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77956303174     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07788.x     Document Type: Article

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