CDP-alcohol hydrolase, a very efficient activity of the 5′-nucleotidase/UDP-sugar hydrolase encoded by the ushA gene of Yersinia intermedia and Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 6153-6161

  Alves Pereira, Isabel ^a,b   Canales, José ^a   Cabezas, Alicia ^a   Cordero, Paloma Martín ^c   Costas, María Jesús ^a   Cameselle, José Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c Badajoz Servicio de Urgencias Complejo Universitario Hospitalario de Badajoz Badajoz Espana   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; AGAR; ALCOHOL HYDROLASE; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLASE; POLYPHOSPHATE; TRITON X 100; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE SUGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; USHA GENE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA INTERMEDIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDASES; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE SUGARS; YERSINIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES; YERSINIA; YERSINIA INTERMEDIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 51549104667     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00658-08     Document Type: Article

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