Construction of a proline-producing mutant of the extremely thermophilic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4328-4332

  Kosuge, Takehide ^a   Hoshino, Takayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; DEGRADATION; ENZYMES; IRRADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

GLUTAMYL KINASE; PROLINE PRODUCING MUTANT; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

GROWTH KINETICS;

AMINO ACID; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; GENE DISRUPTION; INCUBATION TIME; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LATEOLABRAX JAPONICUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0032212741     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4328-4332.1998     Document Type: Article

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