Cloning of genes coding for the three subunits of thiocyanate hydrolase of Thiobacillus thioparus THI 115 and their evolutionary relationships to nitrile hydratase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2583-2589

  Katayama, Yoko ^a   Matsushita, Yasuhiko ^a   Kaneko, Miyuki ^a   Kondo, Mai ^a,b   Mizuno, Tadayoshi ^a,c   Nyunoya, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Sankyo Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; AMIDASE; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; HYDROLASE; NITRILE HYDRATASE; THIOCYANATE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THIOBACILLUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; THIOBACILLUS; THIOBACILLUS THIOPARUS;

EID: 0031924251     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.10.2583-2589.1998     Document Type: Article

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