Menaquinone (vitamin K2) biosynthesis: Overexpression, purification, and characterization of a new isochorismate synthase from Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3133-3138

  Daruwala, R ^a   Bhattacharyya, Dipak K ^a   Kwon, O ^a   Meganathan, R ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORISMIC ACID; SYNTHETASE; DIVALENT CATION; ISOCHORISMATE SYNTHASE; ISOMERASE; MERCAPTOETHANOL; METAL; MUTASE; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ARTICLE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN METABOLISM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PH; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS;

CATIONS, DIVALENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHYLMALEIMIDE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; ISOMERASES; KINETICS; MERCAPTOETHANOL; METALS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; VITAMIN K;

EID: 0030612708     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.10.3133-3138.1997     Document Type: Article

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