Genes and enzymes of the acetyl cycle of arginine biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum: Enzyme evolution in the early steps of the arginine pathway

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-108

  Sakanyan, Vehary ^a   Petrosyan, Pavel ^b   Lecocq, Michèle ^a   Boyen, Anne ^c,d   Legrain, Christiane ^e   Demarez, Marc ^e   Hallet, Jean Noël ^a   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b Pharmagen   (Armenia)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^e Institut de Recherches du CERIA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

argCJBDF sequence; Corynebacterium glutamicum; N acetylglutamate kinase; Ornithine acetyltransferase; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUTAMATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGLUTAMIC ACID; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030049883     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-1-99     Document Type: Article

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