Overproduction of L-cysteine and L-cystine by expression of genes for feedback inhibition-insensitive serine acetyltransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 453-459

  Takagi, Hiroshi ^a   Awano, Naoki ^a   Kobayashi, Shin Ichiro ^a   Noji, Masaaki ^b   Saito, Kazuki ^b   Nakamori, Shigeru ^a  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Feedback inhibition; L Cysteine overproduction; Serine acetyltransferase

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTINE; GLUCOSE; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ARABIDOPSIS; CYSTEINE; CYSTINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032846441     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00429-2     Document Type: Article

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