Sequence and transcriptional analysis of groES and groEL genes from the thermophilic bacterium Clostridium thermocellum

Gene

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 143-147

  Ciruela, Antonio ^a,b   Cross, Stephen ^b   Freedman, Robert B ^b   Hazlewood, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GroE homologues; GroEL GST fusion; groESL operon; Thermophile chaperonins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; START CODON; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GROEL PROTEIN; GROES PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031579453     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00814-1     Document Type: Article

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