Aspartate carbamoyltransferase from a psychrophilic deep-sea bacterium, Vibrio strain 2693: Properties of the enzyme, genetic organization and synthesis in Escherichia coli

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1435-1441

  Xu, Ying ^a,b   Zhang, Yuanfu ^d   Liang, Ziyuan ^a   Van De Casteele, Mark ^a,b   Legrain, Christianne ^c   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^a,b,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c Institut de Recherches du CERIA   (Belgium)

^d Epidemiology Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Aspartate carbamoyltransferase; Psychrophiles; Vibrio

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PYROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; VIBRIO; VIBRIONACEAE;

EID: 0031750455     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-5-1435     Document Type: Article

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