Evolution of arginine biosynthesis in the bacterial domain: Novel gene- enzyme relationships from psychrophilic Moritella strains (Vibrionaceae) and evolutionary significance of N-α-acetyl ornithinase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1609-1615

  Xu, Ying ^a   Liang, Ziyuan ^a   Legrain, Christianne ^b   Rüger, Hans J ^c   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^a,b,d  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Jean Marie Wiame Inst M   (Belgium)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ARGININE; ORNITHINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIONACEAE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMIDOHYDROLASES; ARGININE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYME REPRESSION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIONACEAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARGE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MORITELLA; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; VIBRIONACEAE;

EID: 0034051544     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.6.1609-1615.2000     Document Type: Article

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