Purification and characterization of Thermotoga maritima homoserine transsuccinylase indicates it is a transacetylase

Extremophiles

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 469-478

  Goudarzi, Maryam ^a   Born, Timothy L ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyltransferase; Homoserine transacetylase; Homoserine transsuccinylase; Hyperthermophile; Methionine biosynthesis; Thermotoga maritima

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; HOMOSERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HOMOSERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HOMOSERINE SUCCINYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SOLVENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOMOSERINE O-SUCCINYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; METHIONINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 33749873776     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-006-0522-3     Document Type: Article

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