The N-terminus and the chain-length determination domain play a role in the length of the isoprenoid product of the bifunctional Toxoplasma gondii farnesyl diphosphate synthase

Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 7533-7540

  Li, Zhu Hong ^a   Cintrón, Roxana ^a   Koon, Noah A ^a   Moreno, Silvia N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BIFUNCTIONAL; BIOCHEMICAL DATA; DIPHOSPHATES; DRUG TARGETS; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; FIRST ASPARTATE RICH MOTIFS; HOMO SAPIENS; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE; ISOPRENOIDS; N-TERMINAL DOMAINS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; S.CEREVISIAE; SYNTHASES; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ENZYMES; LIPIDS; MAMMALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); YEAST;

AMINO ACIDS;

ALANINE; CYSTEINE; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; ISOPRENOID; TYROSINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; GERANYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; TERPENES; TOXOPLASMA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HOMO SAPIENS; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84866647446     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi3005335     Document Type: Article

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