Mitochondrial cysteine synthase complex regulates O-acetylserine biosynthesis in plants

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 27941-27947

  Wirtz, Markus ^a   Beard, Katherine F M ^b   Lee, Chun Pong ^a   Boltz, Achim ^a   Schwarzländer, Markus ^b,c   Fuchs, Christopher ^a   Meyer, Andreas J ^a,c   Heeg, Corinna ^a   Sweetlove, Lee J ^b   Ratcliffe, R George ^b   Hell, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; CYTOSOLS; EXPORT RATE; FEEDBACK INHIBITION; FLUX CONTROL; IN-VITRO; LOSS-OF-FUNCTION MUTANTS; RECOMBINANT PLANTS; REVERSIBLE ASSOCIATIONS; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SULFUR;

AMINO ACIDS;

ACETYLSERINE; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; SERINE; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; WILD TYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SERINE; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 84864985839     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.372656     Document Type: Article

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