fbfB, a gene encoding a putative galactose oxidase, is involved in Stigmatella aurantiaca fruiting body formation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1241-1247

  Silakowski, Barbara ^a   Ehret, Heidi ^a   Schairer, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GALACTOSE OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; STARVATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DACTYLIUM; DENDROIDES; FUNGI; HYPOMYCES ROSELLUS; MYXOCOCCALES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; STIGMATELLA AURANTIACA;

EID: 0031909727     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.5.1241-1247.1998     Document Type: Article

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