Identification and purification of a family of dimeric major cold shock protein homologs from the psychrotrophic Bacillus cereus WSBC 10201

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2916-2925

  Mayr, Barbara ^a   Kaplan, Thomas ^a   Lechner, Sabine ^a   Scherer, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; COLD STRESS; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0029880419     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.10.2916-2925.1996     Document Type: Article

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