Engineered cyanophycin synthetase (CphA) from Nostoc ellipsosporum confers enhanced CphA activity and cyanophycin accumulation to Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 7652-7660

  Hai, Tran ^a   Frey, Kay M ^a   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; CELLS; ENZYME KINETICS; HYDROPHOBICITY;

CELLULAR DRY MATTER (CDM); CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOPHYCIN SYNTHETASE (CPHA); NOSTOC ELLIPSOSPORUM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

2 PROPANOL; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CYANOPHYCIN; CYANOPHYCIN SYNTHETASE; ISOPROPYL BETA THIOGALACTOSIDE; LYSINE; PYRANOSIDE; SYNTHETASE; THIOGLYCOSIDE;

AMINO ACID; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; PHENOTYPE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NOSTOC ELLIPSOSPORUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NOSTOC; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UP-REGULATION;

ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NOSTOC ELLIPSOSPORUM; NOSTOC SP.;

EID: 33845547991     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01132-06     Document Type: Article

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