Structure, function and inhibition of ent-kaurene synthase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Wenting ^a   Feng, Xinxin ^b   Zheng, Yingying ^a   Huang, Chun Hsiang ^a   Nakano, Chiaki ^d   Hoshino, Tsutomu ^d   Bogue, Shannon ^b   Ko, Tzu Ping ^c   Chen, Chun Chi ^a   Cui, Yunfeng ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Wang, Iren ^c   Hsu, Shang Te Danny ^c   Oldfield, Eric ^b   Guo, Rey Ting ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENT-KAURENE SYNTHETASE B; ENZYME INHIBITOR; KAURANE DERIVATIVE; KAURENE; TERPENE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERASE;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DITERPENES, KAURANE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923261278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06214     Document Type: Article

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