Feedback inhibition of chorismate mutase/prephenate dehydrogenase (TyrA) of Escherichia coli: Generation and characterization of tyrosine-insensitive mutants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 7224-7228

  Lütke Eversloh, Tina ^a   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

CHORISMATE MUTASE/PREPHENATE DEHYDROGENASE (CM/PDH); FEEDBACK-INHIBITION-RESISTANCE (FBR); TYROSINE;

ENZYME KINETICS;

CHORISMATE MUTASE; FLUOROTYROSINE; HISTIDINE; PREPHENATE DEHYDROGENASE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TYRA GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHORISMATE MUTASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PREPHENATE DEHYDROGENASE; TYROSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 32044431846     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.11.7224-7228.2005     Document Type: Article

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