The gal genes for the leloir pathway of Lactobacillus casei 64H

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2013-2019

  Bettenbrock, Katja ^a,c   Alpert, Carl Alfred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; EPIMERASE; GALACTOKINASE; GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALE; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031776947     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.6.2013-2019.1998     Document Type: Article

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