Molecular characterization of a family of choline-binding proteins of Clostridium beijerinckii NCIB 8052. Evolution and gene redundancy in prokaryotic cell

Gene

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 13-21

  Sánchez Beato, Ana R ^a   García, José L ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell wall lytic enzyme; Choline binding domain; Clostridium acetobutylicum; Glycosylated protein; Homologous gene; Major secreted protein; Modular design

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; START CODON; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOLINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030597365     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00390-3     Document Type: Article

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