Engineering a prokaryotic apocytochrome c as an efficient substrate for Saccharomyces cerevisiae cytochrome c heme lyase

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 424, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 130-135

  Verissimo, Andreia F ^a   Sanders, Joohee ^b   Daldal, Fevzi ^a   Sanders, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apocytochrome c; Cytochrome c heme lyase; Cytochrome c maturation; Heme attachment; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; APOCYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C2; HEMOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84864092651     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.06.088     Document Type: Article

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