Isolation and Analysis of metA, a Methionine Biosynthetic Gene Encoding Homoserine Acetyltransferase in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 286-294

  Park, Soo Dong ^a   Lee, Joon Yol ^a   Kim, Younhee ^a   Kim, Jae Ho ^a   Lee, Heung Shick ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium glutamicum; Homoserine Acetyltransferase; metA; Methionine

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HOMOSERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HOMOSERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHIONINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

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