The glutamine synthetase from the hyperthermoacidophilic crenarcheon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: Isolation, characterization and sequencing of the gene

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 379, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1349-1354

  Yin, Zhimin ^a,b   Purschke, Werner G ^a   Schäfer, Günter ^a   Schmidt, Christian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crenarchea; Glutamine synthetase; Phylogeny; Regulation; Sequence; Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MANGANESE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE ISOLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC AND METHANE PRODUCING BACTERIA; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

EID: 0031762345     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1998.379.11.1349     Document Type: Article

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