Overexpression of serine hydroxymethyltransferase from halotolerant cyanobacterium in Escherichia coli results in increased accumulation of choline precursors and enhanced salinity tolerance

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 333, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-53

  Waditee Sirisattha, Rungaroon ^a,b   Sittipol, Daungjai ^a,b   Tanaka, Yoshito ^a   Takabe, Teruhiro ^a  

^a MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Aphanothece halophytica; Halotolerant cyanobacterium; One carbon metabolism; Salt tolerance; Serine hydroxymethyltransferase

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APHANOTHECE HALOPHYTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOACCUMULATION; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SALINITY; SHMT GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETAINE; CHOLINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCINE; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SALINITY; SALT-TOLERANCE; SERINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

APHANOTHECE HALOPHYTICA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863821810     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02597.x     Document Type: Article

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