Biochemical characterization of Plasmodium falciparum CTP: phosphoethanolamine cytidylyltransferase shows that only one of the two cytidylyltransferase domains is active

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 450, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 159-167

  Maheshwari, Sweta ^a   Lavigne, Marina ^a   Contet, Alicia ^a   Alberge, Blandine ^a   Pihan, Emilie ^b   Kocken, Clemens ^c   Wengelnik, Kai ^a   Douguet, Dominique ^b   Vial, Henri ^a   Cerdan, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CTP:phosphoethanolamine cytidylyltransferase (ECT); EC 2.7.7.14; Malaria; Phosphatidylethanolamine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; ETHANOLAMINE PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; LIFE CYCLE; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 84873035441     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20121480     Document Type: Article

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