The aspartate transcarbamoylase-dihydroorotase complex in Deinococcus radiophilus has an active dihydroorotase

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-81

  McPhail, Donald ^a   Shepherdson, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enzyme complexes; Molecular evolution; Pyrimidine synthesis

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; DIHYDROOROTASE;

ARTICLE; COVALENT BOND; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS;

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DEINOCOCCUS; DIHYDROOROTASE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PYRIMIDINES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DEINOCOCCUS RADIOPHILUS;

EID: 33644542732     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0075-3     Document Type: Article

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