Article
The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii gtr gene encoding the tetrapyrrole biosynthetic enzyme glutamyl-trna reductase: structure of the gene and properties of the expressed enzyme.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Jul 2005
Srivastava Alaka, Lake Vanessa, Nogaj Luiza A, Mayer Sandra M, Willows Robert D, Beale Samuel I
Abstract excerpt
Plants, algae, cyanobacteria and many other bacteria synthesize the tetrapyrrole precursor, delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), from glutamate by means of a tRNAGlu-mediated pathway. The enzyme glutamyl-tRNA reductase (GTR) catalyzes the first committed step in this pathway, which is the reduction of tRNA-bound glutamate to produce glutamate 1-semialdehyde. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mRNA encoding gtr was sequenced...
Topics
- Absorption
- Aldehyde Oxidoreductases
- Algal Proteins
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Aminolevulinic Acid
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Catalysis
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- DNA, Algal
- DNA, Complementary
- Enzyme Inhibitors
- Escherichia coli