Characterization of two glutaminases from the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 241-249

  Zhou, Jun Xia ^a,b   Zhou, Jie ^a   Yang, Hao Meng ^a   Chen, Mei ^a,b   Huang, Fang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Anabaena sp. PCC 7120; Nitrogen depletion; Phosphate activated; Recombinant glutaminase

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTAMINASE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANABAENA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120;

EID: 56649104923     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01395.x     Document Type: Article

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