Isolation and characterization of a novel lysine racemase from a soil metagenomic library

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5161-5166

  Chen, I Chien ^a   Lin, Wei De ^a   Hsu, Shin Kuang ^b   Thiruvengadam, Venkatesan ^a   Hsu, Wen Hwei ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTATION; D-LYSINE; ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION; L-LYSINE; METAGENOME; METAGENOMIC LIBRARIES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES; RACEMASE; REVERSE REACTIONS; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY;

AMINES; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ENCODING; ORGANIC ACIDS; SOILS;

AMINO ACIDS;

GLYCINE; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; LYSINE RACEMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HOST; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SOIL;

AMINO ACID ISOMERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 67651249844     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00074-09     Document Type: Article

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