Aspartate kinase-independent lysine synthesis in an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus: Lysine is synthesized via α- aminoadipic acid not via diaminopimelic acid

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1713-1718

  Kobashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Nishiyama, Makoto ^a   Tanokura, Masaru ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOADIPIC ACID; ASPARTATE KINASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; HYDROLYASE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0032989249     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.6.1713-1718.1999     Document Type: Article

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