Interspecies sequence differences in the Mip protein from the genus Legionella: Implications for function and evolutionary relatedness

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1149-1158

  Ratcliff, Rodney M ^a,d   Donnellan, Stephen C ^b   Lanser, Janice A ^a   Manning, Paul A ^c   Heuzenroeder, Michael W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d Rundle Mall   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENETIC DISTANCE; LEGIONELLA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GRATIANA; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 0030924593     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.5471908.x     Document Type: Article

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