Functional analysis of the small subunit of the putative homoaconitase from Pyrococcus horikoshii in the Thermus lysine biosynthetic pathway

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 315-324

  Lombo, Tania ^a   Takaya, Naoki ^a   Miyazaki, Junichi ^b   Gotoh, Kazumi ^b   Nishiyama, Makoto ^b   Kosuge, Takehide ^a   Nakamura, Akira ^a   Hoshino, Takayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

AAA, alpha aminoadipate; HCS, Homocitrate synthase; HICDH, homoisocitrate dehydrogenase; Pslp, surface layer A promoter

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GENE PRODUCT; LYSINE;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIMERIZATION; DNA INTEGRATION; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDRO-LYASES; LEUCINE; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ARCHAEA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 1842425623     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.02.026     Document Type: Article

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