Cloning and phylogenetic analysis of the genes encoding acetohydroxyacid synthase from the archaeon Methanococcus aeolicus

Gene

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-84

  Bowen, Timothy L ^a,b   Union, Joseph ^a   Tumbula, Debra L ^a   Whitman, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetolactate synthase; Branched chain amino acids; Glyoxylate carboligase; ilv; Pyruvate decarboxylase; Pyruvate oxidase

Indexed keywords

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE; PYRUVATE OXIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGHER PLANT; METHANOBACTERIUM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RED ALGA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHANOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

ALGAE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOCOCCUS AEOLICUS; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0030940004     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00779-2     Document Type: Article

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