Physiological role of the D-amino acid o
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Hiroya Yurimoto; Tetsuya Hasegawa; Yasuyoshi Sakai; Nobuo Kato
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A methylotrophic yeast, Candida boidinii, exhibits D-amino acid oxidase activity (DAO, EC 1.4.3.3) during its growth on D-alanine as a sole carbon or a nitrogen source. The structural gene (DAO1), encoding DAO, was cloned from a genomic library of C. boidinii. The 1035-bp gene encoded 345 amino aci