Identification and molecular analysis of βC-S lyase producing hydrogen sulfide in Streptococcus intermedius

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1411-1419

  Ito, Shuntaro ^a   Nagamune, Hideaki ^b   Tamura, Haruki ^a   Yoshida, Yasuo ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTATHIONINE BETA LYASE; CYSTEINE; GENOMIC DNA; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTEINE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 55549146454     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.2008/001677-0     Document Type: Article

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