Molecular cloning of cyanobacterial pteridine glycosyltransferases that catalyze the transfer of either glucose or xylose to tetrahydrobiopterin

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 7658-7661

  Lee, Yeol Gyun ^a   Kim, Ae Hyun ^a   Park, Mi Bi ^a   Kim, Hye Lim ^a   Lee, Kon Ho ^b   Park, Young Shik ^a  

^a Inje University   (South Korea)

^b Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; GENES ENCODING; GENOMIC DNA; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; IN-VITRO; MOLECULAR CLONING; PCR AMPLIFICATION; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

COENZYMES; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; GLUCOSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

CLONING;

5,6,7,8-TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BIOPTERIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; XYLOSE;

BIOASSAY; CATALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECAL COLIFORM; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUGAR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOPTERIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XYLOSE;

CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 78649703097     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01083-10     Document Type: Article

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