Gene cloning, nucleotide sequencing, and purification and characterization of the low-specificity L-threonine aldolase from Pseudomonas sp. strain NCIMB 10558

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 549-554

  Liu, Ji Quan ^a   Ito, Saeko ^a   Dairi, Tohru ^a   Itoh, Nobuya ^a   Kataoka, Michihiko ^b   Shimizu, Sakayu ^b   Yamada, Hideaki ^a  

^a TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AEROMONAS JANDAEI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031912925     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.549-554.1998     Document Type: Article

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