Cloning and molecular characterization of a presumptive argF, a structural gene encoding ornithine carbamoyl transferase (OCT), in the cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. PCC 73102

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 347-353

  Jansson, Eva ^a   Lindblad, Peter ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ArgF; Cyanobacteria; Nostoc; Ornithine carbamoyl transferase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CARBAMOYL TRANSFERASE; CLONED GENE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCING; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

NOSTOC;

EID: 0031857742     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1030307.x     Document Type: Article

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