A family of modular type mannuronan C‐5‐epimerase genes controls alginate structure in Azotobacter vinelandii

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 719-731

  Ertesvåg, Helga ^a   Høidal, Hilde Kristin ^a   Hals, Ingrid Kathrin ^a   Rian, Anne ^a   Doseth, Berit ^a   Valla, Svein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; EPIMERASE;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE CONTROL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALGINATES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0029059225     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.tb02433.x     Document Type: Article

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