A glutamate/glutamine/aspartate/asparagine transport operon in Rhodobacter capsulatus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1001-1011

  Zheng, Su ^a   Haselkorn, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; DELETION MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0029888155     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02541.x     Document Type: Article

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