Characteristics and efficiency of glutamine production by coupling of a bacterial glutamine synthetase reaction with the alcoholic fermentation system of baker's yeast

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2952-2957

  Wakisaka, Shinji ^a   Ohshima, Yoshifumi ^b   Ogawa, Masahiro ^b   Tochikura, Tatsurokuro ^c   Tachiki, Takashi ^d  

^a WAKUNAGA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMMONIA; FRUCTOSE 1,6 BISPHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; PHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; FERMENTATION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031927426     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.2952-2957.1998     Document Type: Article

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