3-Ketosteroid 9α-hydroxylase enzymes: Rieske non-heme monooxygenases essential for bacterial steroid degradation

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 157-172

  Petrusma, Mirjan ^a   Van Der Geize, Robert ^a   Dijkhuizen, Lubbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3 Ketosteroid 9 hydroxylase; 9 Hydroxylation; Mycobacterium; Rhodococcus; Rieske mono oxygenase; Steroid biotransformation

Indexed keywords

3 KETOSTEROID 9ALPHA HYDROXYLASE A; 3 KETOSTEROID 9ALPHA HYDROXYLASE B; ANDROSTENEDIONE; BOLDIONE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RING OPENING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RHODOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RHODOCOCCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; RHODOCOCCUS; STEROIDS;

EID: 84903955725     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-014-0188-2     Document Type: Review

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