L-aspartate oxidase is present in the anaerobic hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT-3: Characteristics and role in the de novo biosynthesis of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide proposed by genome sequencing

Extremophiles

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 275-281

  Sakuraba, Haruhiko ^a   Satomura, Takenori ^a   Kawakami, Ryushi ^a   Yamamoto, Sanae ^a   Kawarabayasi, Yutaka ^b,c   Kikuchi, Hisasi ^b   Ohshima, Toshihisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND EVALUATION   (Japan)

^c NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaea; Hyperthermophile; L Aspartate oxidase; NAD biosynthesis; OT 3; Pyrococcus horikoshii

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII OT3;

L ASPARTATE OXIDASE; L-ASPARTATE OXIDASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PH; PYROCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME STABILITY; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAD; PYROCOCCUS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036688941     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-001-0254-3     Document Type: Article

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