Histidine utilisation operon (hut) is upregulated at low temperature in the antarctic psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-14

  Kannan, K ^a   Janiyani, Kamala L ^a   Shivaji, S ^a   Ray, M K ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Antarctic psychrotroph; Gene expression; Hut operon; Pseudomonas syringae

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HISTIDINE; HISTIDINE AMMONIA-LYASE; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PSEUDOMONAS; TEMPERATURE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0032054325     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00043-3     Document Type: Article

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