Functional rescue of a bacterial dapA auxotroph with a plant cDNA library selects for mutant clones encoding a feedback-insensitive dihydrodipicolinate synthase

Plant Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 239-248

  Vauterin, Marc ^a   Frankard, Valérie ^a   Jacobs, Michel ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AUXOTROPHY; CATALYSIS; CLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIHYDRODIPICOLINATE SYNTHASE; DNA ISOLATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME MECHANISM; HETEROLOGOUS COMPLEMENTATION; LYSINE; MUTANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOENZYMES; ARABIDOPSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; FEEDBACK; GENE LIBRARY; HYDRO-LYASES; KINETICS; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034056616     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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