Unique aliphatic amidase from a psychrotrophic and haloalkaliphilic Nesterenkonia isolate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3696-3702

  Nel, A J M ^a,b   Tuffin, I M ^a   Sewell, B T ^b   Cowan, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA SEQUENCES; ACTIVE SITE; AMIDASE; CARBAMOYL; CATALYTIC RATES; DESERT SOILS; ENVIRONMENTAL PH; HALOALKALIPHILIC; HALOTOLERANT; NITRILASE; OPEN READING FRAME; PUTATIVE PROTEINS; SCREENING PROGRAMS;

AMIDES; AMINATION; AMINO ACIDS; CYANIDES; ECOLOGY; RNA; SODIUM;

PROTEINS;

AMIDASE; BACTERIAL DNA; FATTY ACID; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH; HYDROLYSIS; ION; MICROORGANISM; PH; PROTEIN; SODIUM; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCOCCACEAE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENZYME STABILITY; FATTY ACIDS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROCOCCACEAE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA;

NESTERENKONIA;

EID: 79958255479     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02726-10     Document Type: Article

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