Buchnera aphidicola (aphid endosymbiont) contains genes encoding enzymes of histidine biosynthesis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 356-358

  Clark, Marta A ^a   Baumann, Linda ^a   Baumann, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; DNA FRAGMENT; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; HISTIDINE; PENTOSE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; APHID; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BACTERIA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

APHIDIDAE; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031698497     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900392     Document Type: Article

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