Poly-α-glutamic acid synthesis using a novel catalytic activity of Rimk from Escherichia coli K-12

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2019-2025

  Kino, Kuniki ^a   Arai, Toshinobu ^a   Arimura, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE LINKAGES; C TERMINUS; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; CYANOPHYCIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; L-AMINO ACIDS; L-GLUTAMIC ACIDS; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMAL STABILITY; TIME OF FLIGHT;

AMIDES; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DESORPTION; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYMERS; POLYPEPTIDES; SUBSTRATES;

AMINO ACIDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; PEPTIDE; POLYLYSINE;

AMINO ACID; BIODEGRADATION; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECAL COLIFORM; HYDROLYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PEPTIDE; PH; PHOSPHATE; POLYMERIZATION;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; SYNTHESIS;

CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; POLYLYSINE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 79953185761     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02043-10     Document Type: Article

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