In vivo aggregation of a single enzyme limits growth of Escherichia coli at elevated temperatures

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1391-1397

  Gur, Eyal ^a   Biran, Dvora ^a   Gazit, Ehud ^a   Ron, Eliora Z ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; HOMOSERINE SUCCINYLASE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACYLTRANSFERASE; HOMOSERINE; HOMOSERINE SUCCINYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLAMINE; TRIMETHYLOXAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEAT STRESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMOSERINE; HOMOSERINE O-SUCCINYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; METHYLAMINES; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036887272     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03257.x     Document Type: Article

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