A cryptic proline permease in Salmonella typhimurium

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2903-2911

  Liao, Min Ken ^a,b   Gort, Steve ^a   Maloy, Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic gene; Multicopy suppression; Proline transport; Salmonella typhimurium

Indexed keywords

PERMEASE; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SILENT GENE; STRUCTURAL GENE; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0030866671     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-9-2903     Document Type: Article

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