Cloning and overexpression in Escherichia coli of the gene encoding citrate synthase from the hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 61-66

  Connaris, Helen ^a   West, Shauna M ^a   Hough, David W ^a   Danson, Michael J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaea; Citrate synthase; Gene sequence; Sulfolobus; Thermophile; Thermostability

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; THERMOPLASMA ACIDOPHILUM; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, ARCHAEAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFOLOBUS;

ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOPLASMA ACIDOPHILUM;

EID: 0032076707     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050043     Document Type: Article

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