Recombinant polycistronic structure of hydantoinase process genes in Escherichia coli for the production of optically pure D-amino acids

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1525-1531

  Martínez Gómez, Ana Isabel ^a   Martínez Rodríguez, Sergio ^a   Clemente Jiménez, Josefa María ^a   Pozo Dengra, Joaquín ^a   Rodríguez Vico, Felipe ^a   Las Heras Vázquez, Francisco Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D-AMINO ACIDS; HYDANTOINS; POLYCISTRONIC STRUCTURES;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL CULTURE; ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DEXTRO AMINO ACID; DEXTRO CARBAMOYLASE; DIHYDROPYRIMIDINASE; LEUCINE; METHIONINE; NORLEUCINE; NORVALINE; PHENYLALANINE; RACEMASE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

AMINO ACID; CLONE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; PLASMID; RACEMIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; RECOMBINATION;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACIDS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; RACEMASES AND EPIMERASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; STEREOISOMERISM;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33947270273     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02365-06     Document Type: Article

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