Purification and characterization of L-methionine γ-lyase from Brevibacterium linens BL2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3327-3331

  Dias, Benjamin ^a   Weimer, Bart ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOBUTYRIC ACID; AMMONIA; METHANETHIOL; METHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; PROTEINASE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BREVIBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; CHEESE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEFORM BACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031662724     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3327-3331.1998     Document Type: Article

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