Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and expression in Escherichia coli of levansucrase genes from the plant pathogens Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea and P. syringae pv. phaseolicola

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3180-3187

  Hettwer, Ursula ^a   Jaeckel, Frank R ^b   Boch, Jens ^b   Meyer, Manfred ^a   Rudolph, Klaus ^a   Ullrich, Matthias S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVAN; LEVANSUCRASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. GLYCINEA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. PHASEOLICOLA; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0031713011     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3180-3187.1998     Document Type: Article

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