Isolation of the Staphylococcus aureus hemCDBL gene cluster coding for early steps in heme biosynthesis

Gene

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 231-239

  Kafala, Badria ^a,b   Sasarman, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 aminolevulinic acid biosynthesis; Cloning; Gram positive organism; Heme; Operon; Porphyrin

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PORPHOBILINOGEN DEAMINASE; UROPORPHYRINOGEN III SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEME SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEME; HYDROXYMETHYLBILANE SYNTHASE; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UROPORPHYRINOGEN III SYNTHETASE; UROPORPHYRINOGENS;

EID: 0030846158     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00372-7     Document Type: Article

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