A histidine protein kinase homolog from the endosymbiont of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3494-3498

  Hughes, Deborah S ^a   Felbeck, Horst ^a   Stein, Jeffrey L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PACHYPTILA; RIFTIA; RIFTIA PACHYPTILA;

EID: 0030803305     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.9.3494-3498.1997     Document Type: Article

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