Metal ions control product specificity of isoprenyl diphosphate synthases in the insect terpenoid pathway

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4194-4199

  Frick, Sindy ^a   Nagel, Raimund ^a   Schmidt, Axel ^a   Bodemann, René R ^a   Rahfeld, Peter ^a   Pauls, Gerhard ^a   Brandt, Wolfgang ^b   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^a   Boland, Wilhelm ^a   Burse, Antje ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Kinetic; Prenyltransferase; Secretions; Silencing

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COBALT; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSFERASE; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; ISOPRENYL DIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE 1; JUVENILE HORMONE; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE; METAL ION; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHRYSOMELIDAE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME METABOLISM; HORSERADISH; NONHUMAN; PHAEDON COCHLEARIAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; COBALT; DIPHOSPHATES; DITERPENES; INSECT PROTEINS; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 84875043318     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221489110     Document Type: Article

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