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Adenine deaminase activity of the yicP gene product of Escherichia coli.
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry - 1 May 2001
Matsui H, Shimaoka M, Kawasaki H, Takenaka Y, Kurahashi O
Abstract excerpt
During previous work on deriving inosine-producing mutants of Escherichia coli, we observed that an excess of adenine added to the culture medium was quickly converted to hypoxanthine. This phenomenon was still apparent after disruption of the known adenosine deaminase gene (add) on the E. coli chromosome, suggesting that, like Bacillus subtilis, E. coli has an adenine deaminase. As the yicP gene of E. coli...
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