Characteristics of serine acetyltransferase from escherichia coli deleting different lengths of amino acid residues from the C-terminus

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1874-1880

  Mino, Koshiki ^a   Hiraoka, Kenji ^a   Imamura, Koreyoshi ^a   Sakiyama, Takaharu ^a   Eisaki, Naoki ^b,c   Matsuyama, Asahi ^b,c   Nakanishi, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KIKKOMAN CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

C terminal region; Cold inactivation; Cysteine synthetase; O acetylserine sulfhydrylase; Serine acetyltransferase

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; DIMERIZATION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 0034278207     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.64.1874     Document Type: Article

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