Identification of a novel aminopropyltransferase involved in the synthesis of branched-chain polyamines in hyperthermophiles

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1866-1876

  Okada, Kazuma ^a   Hidese, Ryota ^a   Fukuda, Wakao ^b   Niitsu, Masaru ^c   Takao, Koichi ^c   Horai, Yuhei ^d   Umezawa, Naoki ^d   Higuchi, Tsunehiko ^d   Oshima, Tairo ^e   Yoshikawa, Yuko ^b   Imanaka, Tadayuki ^b   Fujiwara, Shinsuke ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JOSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Institute of Environmental Microbiology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; N 4 BIS(AMINOPROPYL)SPERMIDINE; POLYAMINE; PROTEIN BPSA; SPERMIDINE; SPERMIDINE SYNTHASE; SPERMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DATA BASE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MESOPHILE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARENSIS; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; POLYAMINES; THERMOCOCCUS;

EID: 84898919178     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01515-14     Document Type: Article

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