Cloning and transcriptional analysis of the lipA (lipoic acid synthetase) gene from Rhizobium etli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-172

  Taté, Rosarita ^a   Riccio, Anna ^a   Iaccarino, Maurizio ^a   Patriarca, Eduardo J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon metabolism; LipA gene; Lipoic acid; Rhizobium etli; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

THIOCTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIPASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHIZOBIUM; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 0030937184     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00069-4     Document Type: Article

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