Complete sequence and organization of the Serratia marcescens biotin operon

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3295-3303

  Sakurai, Naoki ^a   Akatsuka, Hiroyuki ^a   Kawai, Eri ^a   Imai, Yuji ^a   Komatsubara, Saburo ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biotin biosynthesis; Biotin operon; Serratia marcescens

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BIOTIN; SYNTHETASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERATOR; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 0029904609     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-11-3295     Document Type: Article

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