The Helicobacter pylori ureC gene codes for a phosphoglucosamine mutase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3488-3493

  De Reuse, Hilde ^a   Labigne, Agnès ^a   Mengin Lecreulx, Dominique ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; GLUTAMINE FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; MUTASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; UREASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOCOCCUS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0030990844     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.11.3488-3493.1997     Document Type: Article

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