Genes and enzymes of the acetyl cycle of arginine biosynthesis in the extreme thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 479-492

  Baetens, Margot ^a,b,d   Legrain, Christianne ^c   Boyen, Anne ^a,b   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 STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

argCJ sequence; N acetylglutamate 5 semialdehyde dehydrogenase; Ornithine acetyltransferase; Regulation; Thermus thermophilus

Indexed keywords

ACETYLORNITHINE; ARGININE; GLUTAMATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DERIVATIVE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACETYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; PROKARYOTA; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0031913669     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-2-479     Document Type: Article

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