Identification and molecular characterization of tryptophanase encoded by tnaA in Porphyromonas gingivalis

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 968-978

  Yoshida, Yasuo ^a   Sasaki, Takako ^a   Ito, Shuntaro ^a   Tamura, Haruki ^a   Kunimatsu, Kazushi ^a   Kato, Hirohisa ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOLE; PROTEIN TNAA; TRYPTOPHANASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INDOLES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHANASE;

EID: 64049097538     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.024174-0     Document Type: Article

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