The L-asparagine operon of Rhizobium etli contains a gene encoding an atypical asparaginase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 177-182

  Ortuño Olea, Leobardo ^a   Durán Vargas, Socorro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Asparaginase; Asparagine degradation; Asparagine permease; Aspartase; Rhizobium etli

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; ASPARTATE AMMONIA LYASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; NITROGEN; PERMEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ASPARAGINASE; ASPARAGINE; GENES, BACTERIAL; OPERON; RHIZOBIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0342646916     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00275-5     Document Type: Article

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