Cloning, expression, and structure analysis of carbamate kinase-like carbamoyl phosphate synthetase from Pyrococcus abyssi

Extremophiles

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 229-239

  Purcarea, Cristina ^a   Hervé, Guy ^b   Cunin, Raymond ^c   Evans, David R ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Archaea; Carbamate kinase; Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase; Evolution; Hyperthermophily; Pyrococcus abyssi

Indexed keywords

CARBAMATE KINASE; LIGASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PYROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (CARBOXYL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PYROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0035432860     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920100201     Document Type: Article

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