The Mycobacterium tuberculosis ORF Rv0654 encodes a carotenoid oxygenase mediating central and excentric cleavage of conventional and aromatic carotenoids

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 4662-4673

  Scherzinger, Daniel ^a   Scheffer, Erdmann ^a   Bär, Cornelia ^a   Ernst, Hansgeorg ^b   Al Babili, Salim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apocarotenoids; Carotenoid cleavage oxygenase; Carotenoids; Lycopene; Mycobacterium; Retinoids

Indexed keywords

3,3' DIHYDROXY ISORENIERATENE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA APO 13 CAROTENONE; BETA APO 14' CAROTENAL; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; LYCOPENE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS CAROTENOID CLEAVAGE OXYGENASE; OXYGENASE; RETINAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HYDROXYLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOIDS; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXYGENASES;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 78049270840     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07873.x     Document Type: Article

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