Alanine racemase from Helicobacter pylori NCTC 11637:Purification, characterization and gene cloning

Life Sciences

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 788-794

  Saito, Makoto ^a   Nishimura, Katsushi ^a   Hasegawa, Yuichiro ^a   Shinohara, Tomomitsu ^a   Wakabayashi, Sadao ^b   Kurihara, Tatsuo ^c   Ishizuka, Morio ^d   Nagata, Yoko ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

d alanine; Helicobacter pylori; Racemase

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE RACEMASE 1; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY YIELD; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ALANINE; ALANINE RACEMASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 33846259335     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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