Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of the lysR gene from the extremely thermophilic eubacterium, Thermus thermophilus HB27

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 73-79

  Kosuge, Takehide ^a   Hoshino, Takayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

argCB operon; lysR gene; Thermus thermophilus

Indexed keywords

KANAMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KANAMYCIN; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0031407215     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00456-4     Document Type: Article

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