Cold-adapted alanine dehydrogenases from two Antarctic bacterial strains: Gene cloning, protein characterization, and comparison with mesophilic and thermophilic counterparts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4014-4020

  Galkin, Andrey ^a   Kulakova, Ljudmila ^a   Ashida, Hiroyuki ^b   Sawa, Yoshihiro ^b   Esaki, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME;

ARTICLE; CARNOBACTERIUM; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEWANELLA; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARNOBACTERIUM; CARNOBACTERIUM SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA SP.; VIBRIO PROTEOLYTICUS;

EID: 0032829463     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.4014-4020.1999     Document Type: Article

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