Repertoire of malic enzymes in yeast and fungi: Insight into their evolutionary functional and structural significance

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART 12, 2013, Pages 2548-2557

  Vorapreeda, Tayvich ^a   Thammarongtham, Chinae ^a   Cheevadhanarak, Supapon ^a   Laoteng, Kobkul ^b  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; GENE INSERTION; LIPOGENESIS; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULE; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; MUCORALES; MUCOROMYCOTINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YEAST;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (NADP+); MODELS, MOLECULAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84888861795     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.065342-0     Document Type: Article

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