Clustered organization and transcriptional analysis of a family of five csp genes of Lactococcus lactis MG1363

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2885-2893

  Wouters, Jeroen A ^a,b   Sanders, Jan Willem ^c   Kok, Jan ^c   De Vos, Willem M ^a   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a   Abee, Tjakko ^b  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

csp genes; Lactococcus lactis; Low temperature adaptation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031734479     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-10-2885     Document Type: Article

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