Cloning of alanine racemase genes from Pseudomonas fluorescens strains and oligomerization states of gene products expressed in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 409-417

  Ju, Jiansong ^a   Yokoigawa, Kumio ^b   Misono, Haruo ^c   Ohnishi, Kouhei ^c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alanine racemase; Dimer formation; Phylogeny; Pseudomonas

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DIMERIZATION; DIMERS; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALANINE RACEMASE; BACTERIAL ALANINE;

GENES;

ALANINE RACEMASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DEXTRO AMINO ACID DEHYDROGENASE; GENE PRODUCT; HOMODIMER; HYBRID PROTEIN; MONOMER; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; DADX GENE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

ALANINE RACEMASE; CATALYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 31844433108     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1263/jbb.100.409     Document Type: Article

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