Aspartate transcarbamylase from the hyperthermophilic eubacterium Thermotoga maritima: Fused catalytic and regulatory polypeptides form an allosteric enzyme

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 6389-6391

  Chen, Pingguo ^a,b   Van Vliet, Françoise ^c   Van De Casteele, Mark ^a,b   Legrain, Christianne ^c   Cunin, Raymond ^a,b   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^a,b,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c Jean Marie Wiame Inst M   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

EID: 0031786216     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.23.6389-6391.1998     Document Type: Article

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