The significance and effect of tandem repeats within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis leuA gene on α-isopropylmalate synthase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-170

  Chanchaem, Wimon ^a   Palittapongarnpim, Prasit ^b  

^a RAMKHAMHAENG UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

isopropylmalate synthase; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

2 ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PH MEASUREMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT;

2-ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 49749099678     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01268.x     Document Type: Article

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