Cloning, expression, and isolation of the mannitol transport protein from the thermophilic bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 5586-5591

  Henstra, Sytse A ^a   Tolner, Berend ^a   Ten Hoeve Duurkens, Ria H ^a   Konings, Wil N ^a   Robillard, George T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0029797221     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.19.5586-5591.1996     Document Type: Article

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