Structure and organisation of the pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway genes in Lactobacillus plantarum: A PCR strategy for sequencing without cloning

Gene

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 37-43

  Elagöz, Aram ^a   Abdi, Akila ^a,b   Hubert, Jean Claude ^a   Kammerer, Benoît ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Complementation; Operon; Transcriptional attenuation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA LIBRARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LACTOBACILLUS; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PYRIMIDINES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS CALDOLYTICUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030571479     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00461-1     Document Type: Article

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