Isolation of the Corynebacterium glutamicum glnA gene encoding glutamine synthetase I

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-88

  Jakoby, Marc ^a   Tesch, Martin ^a   Sahm, Hermann ^a   Krämer, Reinhard ^a   Burkovski, Andreas ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium; GlnA; Glutamine synthetase; Nitrogen metabolism

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ISOLATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA;

AMINO ACIDS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 0030884625     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00304-2     Document Type: Article

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