CynD, the cyanide dihydratase from Bacillus pumilus: Gene cloning and structural studies

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4794-4805

  Jandhyala, Dakshina ^a   Berman, Mark ^c   Meyers, Paul R ^c   Sewell, B Trevor ^c   Willson, Richard C ^a,b   Benedik, Michael J ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYMES; PH EFFECTS;

WASTE SITES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYANIDE; CYANIDE DIHYDRATASE; GLUTARALDEHYDE; HISTIDINE; HYDROLYASE; NITRILASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIAL GENE; CYND GENE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MINING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROLASES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; PUMILUS;

EID: 0041528198     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.4794-4805.2003     Document Type: Article

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