Role of a conserved arginine residue during catalysis in serine palmitoyltransferase

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1729-1734

  Lowther, Jonathan ^a   Charmier, Guillaume ^a   Raman, Marine C ^a   Ikushiro, Hiroko ^b   Hayashi, Hideyuki ^b   Campopiano, Dominic J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enzyme mechanism; Quinonoid intermediate; Serine palmitoyltransferase; Sphingolipid; Sphingomonas wittichii

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SERINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPHINGOBACTERIUM; SPHINGOBACTERIUM MULTIVORUM; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; SPHINGOMONAS WITTICHII; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

ARGININE; CATALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PALMITOYL COENZYME A; SERINE C-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPHINGOMONAS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SPHINGOMONAS WITTICHII;

EID: 79958173082     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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