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Elicitation of an oxidase activity in bacterial luciferase by site-directed mutation of a noncatalytic residue.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 15 Mar 1990
Xi L, Cho K W, Herndon M E, Tu S C
Abstract excerpt
Flavin-dependent external monooxygenases and oxidases could catalyze the same flavin oxidation reaction involving distinct mechanisms. To gain insights into enzyme structure-function relationship, site-directed mutagenesis was carried out for Vibrio harveyi luciferase, a monooxygenase. The substitution of the alpha subunit cysteine 106 by alanine shows unambiguously that the alphaCys106 is not essential to...
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