The purB gene of Escherichia coli K-12 is located in an operon

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3219-3230

  Green, Stephen M ^a   Malik, Tahir ^a,b   Giles, Ian G ^a   Drabble, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Tampa Bay Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Internal promoter; phoP gene; purB gene; Succinyl AMP lyase

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; LYASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURINE SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 0029855802     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-11-3219     Document Type: Article

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