Heteromeric assembly of the cytosolic glutamine synthetase polypeptides of Medicago truncatula: Complementation of a glnA Escherichia coli mutant with a plant domain-swapped enzyme

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 623-632

  Carvalho, Helena ^a   Sunkel, Claudio ^a   Salema, Roberto ^a   Cullimore, Julie V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b Lab Biol Molec Rel Plantes M   (France)

Author keywords

Domain swapping; Glutamine synthetase; Medicago truncatula; Subunit assembly

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE I; HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOENZYME; PEPTIDE;

ALFALFA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOSOL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 0031282643     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005884304303     Document Type: Article

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