Comparative characterization of the oah2 gene homologous to the oah1 of Thermus thermophilus HB8

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1357-1361

  Iwama, Tomonori ^a   Hosokawa, Hideo ^a   Lin, Weimin ^a   Shimizu, Hideaki ^a   Kawai, Keiichi ^a   Yamagata, Shuzo ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

O acetylhomoserine sulfhydrylase; oah1; oah2; Thermus thermophilus HB8

Indexed keywords

LYASE; O ACETYLHOMOSERINE (THIOL) LYASE; O-ACETYLHOMOSERINE (THIOL)-LYASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 4544262559     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.68.1357     Document Type: Article

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