A Francisella tularensis DNA clone complements Escherichia coli defective for the production of era, an essential ras-like GTP-binding protein

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-34

  Zuber, Mohammed ^a   Hoover, Timothy A ^b   Dertzbaugh, Mark T ^b   Court, Donald L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

aspC; Cloning; mdh; Sequencing; Tularemia

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TULAREMIA;

EID: 0030932675     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00813-X     Document Type: Article

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