Article
Cloning of a cDNA encoding adenylosuccinate lyase by functional complementation in Escherichia coli.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 5 Jun 1990
Aimi J, Badylak J, Williams J, Chen Z D, Zalkin H, Dixon J E
Abstract excerpt
Adenylosuccinate lyase was cloned by functional complementation of an Escherichia coli purB mutant using an avian liver cDNA expression library. The derived amino acid sequence is homologous to the bacterial purB-encoded adenylosuccinate lyase which catalyzes the same two steps in purine biosynth...
Topics
- Adenylosuccinate Lyase
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Bacillus subtilis
- Base Sequence
- Chickens
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA
- Escherichia coli
- Humans
- Lyases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Plasmids
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Transformation, Bacterial
