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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2018

Investigating the bifunctionality of cyclizing and "classical" 5-aminolevulinate synthases.

Joyce Liu, James Kaganjo, Wenjun Zhang, Jill Zeilstra-Ryalls

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joyce LiuDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California.
James KaganjoDepartment of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Wenjun ZhangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California.
Jill Zeilstra-RyallsDepartment of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.ORCID 0000-0002-1826-7913
Bowling Green State University · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

In Situ Natural Product Labeling and ApplicationsDP2AT009148 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI ZHANG, WENJUN · 2015 to 2020
$2.8M
NCCIH NIH HHS DP2 AT009148
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The precursor to all tetrapyrroles is 5-aminolevulinic acid, which is made either via the condensation of glycine and succinyl-CoA catalyzed by an ALA synthase (the C4 or Shemin pathway) or by a pathway that uses glutamyl-tRNA as a precursor and involves other enzymes (the C5 pathway). Certain ALA synthases also catalyze the cyclization of ALA-CoA to form 2-amino-3-hydroxycyclopent-2-en-1-one. Organisms with synthases that possess this second activity nevertheless rely upon the C5 pathway to supply ALA for tetrapyrrole biosynthesis. The C

Indexed as

Amino Acid Substitution5-Aminolevulinate SynthetaseBacterial ProteinsCatalytic DomainCyclizationModels, MolecularProtein Structure, TertiaryRhodobacter sphaeroidesStructural Homology, ProteinTetrapyrrolesThreonine5-Aminolevulinate SynthetaseBacterial ProteinsTetrapyrrolesThreonine5-aminolevulinate-CoA cyclase5-aminolevulinate synthasebifunctional enzymesenzyme kineticsenzyme mutationhomology modelingmetabolismsecondary metabolism

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PMID29027286
PMCPMC5775165
OpenAlexW2761496042

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