Biochemical and genetic characterization of benzylsuccinate synthase from Thauera aromatica: A new glycyl radical enzyme catalysing the first step in anaerobic toluene metabolism

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 615-628

  Leuthner, Birgitta ^a   Leutwein, Christina ^a   Schulz, Henk ^a   North, Patric ^a   Haehnel, Wolfgang ^a   Schiltz, Emile ^a   Schägger, Hermann ^b   Heider, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BENZYLSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; FORMATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCYL RADICAL; RADICAL; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THAUERA AROMATICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARBON-CARBON LYASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYMES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOLUENE;

EID: 0031980567     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00826.x     Document Type: Article

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