Identification, sequencing and mutagenesis of the gene for a D-carbamoylase from Agrobacterium radiobacter

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-62

  Buson, Alberto ^a   Negro, Alessandro ^a   Grassato, Luigi ^a   Tagliaro, Massimo ^a   Basaglia, Marina ^a   Grandi, Claudio ^a   Fontana, Angelo ^a   Nuti, Marco P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium radiobacter; cauA; D Amino acid; D Carbamoylase; Escherichia coli expression

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; DEXTRO CARBAMOYLASE; DNA; LEUCINE; PEPTIDE; PROLINE; PYRANOSIDE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; RHIZOBIUM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RADIOBACTER;

EID: 0030589141     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00385-0     Document Type: Article

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