Kynurenine aminotransferase III and glutamine transaminase L are identical enzymes that have cysteine S-conjugate β-lyase activity and can transaminate L-selenomethionine

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 30950-30961

  Pinto, John T ^a   Krasnikov, Boris F ^a   Alcutt, Steven ^a   Jones, Melanie E ^a   Dorai, Thambi ^a   Villar, Maria T ^b   Artigues, Antonio ^b   Li, Jianyong ^c   Cooper, Arthur J L ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITION; GENES; MAMMALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ELIMINATION REACTION; ENCODED PROTEINS; ENDOGENOUS EXPRESSION; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; MAMMALIAN GENOMES; SELENOMETHIONINE;

AMINO ACIDS;

ACETYL COENZYME A ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ALBIZZIIN; ALPHA KETOMETHYLSELENOBUTYRATE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE ISOENZYME 1; BETA METHYLSELENOPYRUVATE; CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; CYSTEINE CONJUGATE BETA LYASE; GLUTAMINE TRANSAMINASE L; GLYOXYLIC ACID; HOMOSERINE; KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE 1; KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE 2; KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE 3; KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE 4; METHYL SELENOCYSTEINE; OXOACID; PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASE; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOMETHIONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALKENE; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE-PYRUVATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; KYNURENINE-OXOGLUTARATE TRANSAMINASE; LYASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; S-ALKYLCYSTEINE LYASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ELIMINATION REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; TRANSAMINATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LIVER; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALKENES; ANIMALS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CYSTEINE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIVER; MICE; NEOPLASMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOMETHIONINE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 84909957324     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.591461     Document Type: Article

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