The role of the Corynebacterium glutamicum rel gene in (p)ppGpp metabolism

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1853-1862

  Wehmeier, Lutz ^a   Schäfer, Andreas ^a,d   Burkovski, Andreas ^b   Krämer, Reinhard ^b   Mechold, Undine ^c   Malke, Horst ^c   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d QIAGEN GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

(p)ppGpp; Corynebacterium; relA; spoT; Stringent response

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM ATCC 13032; ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031852111     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-7-1853     Document Type: Article

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