Arginine racemization by coupled catabolic and anabolic dehydrogenases

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 906-911

  Li, Congran ^a,b   Lu, Chung Dar ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Arginine dehydrogenase; Racemase

Indexed keywords

2 KETOARGININE; AMMONIA; ARGININE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; CARBON; DAUA PROTEIN; DAUB PROTEIN; DAUR PROTEIN; DAUT PROTEIN; DEXTRO ARGININE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RACEMIZATION;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; ARGININE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STEREOISOMERISM;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 58849145796     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808269106     Document Type: Article

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