Aspartate aminotransferase from the Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC 125. Cloning, expression, properties, and molecular modelling

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2790-2802

  Birolo, Leila ^c   Tutino, Luisa M ^c   Fontanella, Bianca ^c   Gerday, Charles ^a   Mainolfi, Katia ^c   Pascarella, Stefano ^c   Sannia, Giovanni ^c   Vinci, Floriana ^c   Marino, Gennaro ^b  

^a CHU SART TILMAN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aspartate aminotransferase; Cold adaptation; Psychrophile

Indexed keywords

2 OXOACID; AMINO ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; MALEIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS;

EID: 0008298889     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01299.x     Document Type: Article

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