The Escherichia coli ldcC gene encodes another lysine decarboxylase, probably a constitutive enzyme

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 167-172

  Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Miwa, Yoshihiro ^b   Miyoshi, Keiko ^b   Furuyama, Jun Ichi ^a   Ohmori, Haruo ^c  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; HAFNIA ALVEI; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOXY-LYASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAFNIA ALVEI;

EID: 0030808549     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.72.167     Document Type: Article

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