Properties of the Corynebacterium glutamicum metC Gene Encoding Cystathionine β-lyase

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 220-225

  Kim, Jun Won ^a   Kim, Hyung Joon ^a   Kim, Younhee ^b   Lee, Myeong Sok ^c   Lee, Heung Shick ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Semyung University   (South Korea)

^c Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium glutamicum; Cystathionine lyase; metC; Methionine

Indexed keywords

CYSTATHIONINE BETA LYASE; CYSTATHIONINE BETA-LYASE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LYASE; LYSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LYASES; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES;

EID: 0035972195     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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