Aerobic tryptophan degradation pathway in bacteria: Novel kynurenine formamidase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 219-227

  Kurnasov, Oleg ^a   Jablonski, Lynn ^a,d   Polanuyer, Boris ^a,e   Dorrestein, Pieter ^b   Begley, Tadhg ^b   Osterman, Andrei ^a,c  

^a Integrated Genomics Inc   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d GENEDATA AG   (Switzerland)

^e Supelco Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthranilate; Comparative genomics; Kynureninase; Kynurenine formamidase; Ralstonia metallidurans; Tryptophan 2,3 dioxygenase

Indexed keywords

ANTHRANILIC ACID; ARYLFORMAMIDASE; TRYPTOPHAN;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA METALLIDURANS;

BACILLUS CEREUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RALSTONIA; WAUTERSIA METALLIDURANS;

EID: 0142226990     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00684-0     Document Type: Article

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