Cloning of the argF gene encoding the ornithine carbamoyltransferase from Corynebacterium glutamicum

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-337

  Chun, Jae Yeon ^a   Lee, Myeong Sok ^a  

^a Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Argf Gene; Arginine Biosynthetic Gene; Corynebacterium glutamicum; Ornithine Carbamoyl transferase (OTCase)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033617868     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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