A specialized aspartokinase enhances the biosynthesis of the osmoprotectants ectoine and hydroxyectoine in Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4456-4468

  Stöveken, Nadine ^a   Pittelkow, Marco ^a   Sinner, Tatjana ^a   Jensen, Roy A ^b   Heider, Johann ^a   Bremer, Erhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; ASPARTATE KINASE; ASPARTATE SEMIALDEHYDE; ASPARTATE SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ECTOINE; HYDROXYECTOINE; LYSINE; PROTECTIVE AGENT; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SYNTHESIS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; ASPARTATE KINASE; ASPARTATE-SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LYSINE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; THREONINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 80052309177     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00345-11     Document Type: Article

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