Identification of a gene sequence encoding a putative pyruvate oxidoreductase in Serpulina pilosicoli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 121-126

  Rayment, S J ^a   Lee, B J ^b   Hampson, D J ^b   Livesley, M A ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibody; Spirochaete

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRACHYSPIRA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHAGEMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; KETONE OXIDOREDUCTASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERPULINA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SPIROCHAETA; THERMATOGA; THERMATOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 0031690984     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00320-6     Document Type: Article

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