Site-directed mutagenesis, heterologous expression of cyanamide hydratase gene and antimicrobial activity of cyanamide

Current Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-47

  Kirubakaran, Sundar Isaac ^a   Sakthivel, Natarajan ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANAMIDE; HYDROLYASE; UREA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANAMIDE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDRO-LYASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; NICOTIANA;

EID: 37549058457     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-007-9036-1     Document Type: Article

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