A novel trehalose synthesizing pathway in the hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Thermoproteus tenax: The unidirectional TreT pathway

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-369

  Kouril, Theresa ^a   Zaparty, Melanie ^a   Marrero, Jeannette ^a   Brinkmann, Henner ^b   Siebers, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaea; Hyperthermophile; Thermoproteus tenax; Trehalose metabolism; Unidirectional trehalose glycosyltransferring synthase (TreT)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLUCOSE; TREHALOSE; TREHALOSE GLYCOSYLTRANSFERRING SYNTHASE; TREHALOSE PHOSPHORYLASE; TREHALOSE SYNTHASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CRENARCHAEOTA; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPROTEUS TENAX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CLONING, ORGANISM; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMOPROTEUS; TREHALOSE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; THERMOCOCCALES; THERMOCOCCUS LITORALIS; THERMOPROTEUS TENAX; THERMOTOGALES;

EID: 49749149995     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-008-0377-3     Document Type: Article

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