Oxygen-dependent regulation of the expression of the catalase gene katA of Lactobacillus sakei LTH677

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1359-1365

  Hertel, Christian ^a   Schmidt, Gudrun ^a   Fischer, Marc ^a   Oellers, Katja ^a   Hammes, Walter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS CURVATUS; LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031980272     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1359-1365.1998     Document Type: Article

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