Phenylalanine hydroxylase: Function, structure, and regulation

IUBMB Life

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 341-349

  Flydal, Marte I ^a   Martinez, Aurora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

enzymology; evolution; protein function; protein structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; FERROUS ION; GLUTAMIC ACID; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; PHENYLPYRUVIC ACID; TRYPTOPHAN;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYST; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; EUKARYOTE; HYDROXYLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHENYLKETONURIA; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REVIEW; TRANSAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BIOPTERIN; HUMANS; KINETICS; MELANINS; MUTATION; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE; PHENYLKETONURIAS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84875353256     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.1150     Document Type: Review

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