Genetic analysis of the Rhizobium meliloti bacA gene: Functional interchangeability with the Escherichia coli sbmA gene and phenotypes of mutants

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 209-216

  Ichige, Asao ^a   Walker, Graham C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEDICAGO SATIVA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0031020858     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.1.209-216.1997     Document Type: Article

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