Cloning and functional characterization of Helicobacter pylori fumarate reductase operon comprising three structural genes coding for subunits C, A and B

Gene

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 227-234

  Ge, Zhongming ^a   Jiang, Qin ^a   Kalisiak, M S ^a   Taylor, Diane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Immunoblotting; Knock out mutagenesis; Nucleotide sequence; Protein expression

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE; WOLINELLA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OPERON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

EID: 0031578724     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00550-7     Document Type: Article

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