Sequencing and characterization of the xyl operon of a gram-positive bacterium, Tetragenococcus halophila

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2513-2519

  Takeda, Yasuo ^a   Takase, Kazuma ^a   Yamato, Ichiro ^a   Abe, Keietsu ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KIKKOMAN CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; RIBOSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PEDIOCOCCUS; TETRAGENOCOCCUS HALOPHILA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOPHILA; PEDIOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TETRAGENOCOCCUS HALOPHILA; TETRAGENOCOCCUS HALOPHILUS;

EID: 0031841222     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2513-2519.1998     Document Type: Article

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