Polyamines of thermophilic Gram-positive anaerobes belonging to the genera Caldicellulosiruptor, Caloramator, Clostridium, Coprothermobacter, Moorella, Thermoanaerobacter and Thermoanaerobacterium

Microbios

Volumn 85, Issue 345, 1996, Pages 213-222

  Hamana, Koei ^a   Hamana, Hiroshi ^a   Niitsu, Masaru ^b   Samejima, Keijiro ^b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JOSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gram positive anaerobe; Polyamine; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030552589     PISSN: 00262633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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