Polyamines of hyperthermophilic archaebacteria, Archaeoglobus, Thermococcus, Pyrobaculum and Sulfolobus

Microbios

Volumn 87, Issue 351, 1996, Pages 69-76

  Hamana, Koei ^a   Hamana, Hiroshi ^a   Niitsu, Masaru ^b   Samejima, Keijiro ^b   Itoh, Takashi ^c  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JOSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaebacteria; Polyamine; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030373570     PISSN: 00262633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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