Role of Saccharomyces cerevisiae serine O-acetyltransferase in cysteine biosynthesis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 291-297

  Takagi, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshioka, Kenji ^a   Awano, Naoki ^a   Nakamori, Shigeru ^a   Ono, Bun Ichiro ^b  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; L Cysteine biosynthesis; L Serine O acetyltransferase; O Acetyl L serine sulfhydrylase; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTATHIONINE BETA SYNTHASE; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; CYSTEINE; HOMOSERINE; O ACETYL HOMOSERINE SULFHYDRYLASE; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; CYSTEINE; LYASES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFATES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037469333     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01175-8     Document Type: Article

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