Novel keto acid formate-lyase and propionate kinase enzymes are components of an anaerobic pathway in Escherichia coli that degrades L-threonine to propionate

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 477-492

  Heßlinger, Christian ^a   Fairhurst, Shirley A ^b   Sawers, Gary ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROPIONIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, NEUTRAL; ANAEROBIOSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FERMENTATION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (CARBOXYL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROPIONATES; THREONINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031973793     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00696.x     Document Type: Article

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