Molecular characterization of the xerC gene of Lactobacillus leichmannii encoding a site-specific recombinase and two adjacent heat shock genes

Current Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 232-236

  Becker, Jürgen ^a   Brendel, Martin ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GENE PRODUCT; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029932415     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900042     Document Type: Article

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