Functional analysis of a relA/spoT gene homolog from Streptococcus equisimilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1401-1411

  Mechold, Undine ^a   Cashel, Michael ^b   Steiner, Kerstin ^a   Gentry, Daniel ^b   Malke, Horst ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOKINASE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE SUBSP. EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 0029924014     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.5.1401-1411.1996     Document Type: Article

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