PhhC is an essential aminotransferase for aromatic amino acid catabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3127-3134

  Gu, Wei ^a,b   Song, Jian ^a   Bonner, Carol A ^a   Xie, Gang ^a   Jensen, Roy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatic aminotransferase; Phenylalanine catabolism; Phenylalanine hydroxylase operon; phhC; tyrosine catabolism

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0031767240     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-11-3127     Document Type: Article

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