Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-6-phosphogluconolactonase: A unique bifunctional enzyme from Plasmodium falciparum

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 436, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 641-650

  Jortzik, Esther ^a   Mailu, Boniface M ^a   Preuss, Janina ^a,b   Fischer, Marina ^a   Bode, Lars ^b   Rahlfs, Stefan ^a   Becker, Katja ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

6 phosphogluconolactonase; Glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase; Malaria; Pentose phosphate pathway; Plasmodium; Redox

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOGLUCONOLACTONASE; GLUCONOLACTONASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTATHIONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALARIA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 79957693495     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20110170     Document Type: Article

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