Introduction of a new branchpoint in tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in Escherichia coli by co-expression of genes encoding the chlorophyll-specific enzymes magnesium chelatase and magnesium protoporphyrin methyltransferase

FEBS Letters

Volumn 455, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 349-354

  Jensen, Poul E ^b   Gibson, Lucien C D ^a   Shephard, Freya ^a   Smith, Vernon ^a   Hunter, C Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Plant Biochemistry Laboratory   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll biosynthesis; Methyltransferase; Mg chelatase; Synechocystis

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; MAGNESIUM; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PORPHYRIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; PLASMID; PORPHYRIN METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHLOROPHYLL; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LYASES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; OPERON; PYRROLES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TETRAPYRROLES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0032782664     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(99)00909-6     Document Type: Article

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