Random mutagenesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 using an IS6100-based transposon vector identified the last unknown gene in the histidine biosynthesis pathway

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mormann, Sascha ^a   Lömker, Alexander ^a   Ruckert, Christian ^a   Gaigalat, Lars ^a   Tauch, Andreas ^a   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HISTIDINE; HISTIDINOL; HISTIDINOL PHOSPHATASE; INOSITOL 1 PHOSPHATASE; NUCLEOTIDE; VITAMIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE DELETION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PLASMID; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOMYCETACEAE; TRANSPOSON;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; HISTIDINE; HISTIDINOL-PHOSPHATASE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM ATCC 13032; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 33749425658     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-205     Document Type: Article

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