Absolute chemical structure of the myxobacterial pheromone of Stigmatella aurantiaca that induces the formation of its fruiting body

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-34

  Morikawa, Yuka ^a   Takayama, Seiji ^a   Fudo, Ryosuke ^b   Yamanaka, Shigeru ^b   Mori, Kenji ^c   Isogai, Akira ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absolute structure; Fruiting body; Myxobacterium; Pheromone; Stigmatella aurantiaca

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENANTIOMER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; STEREOSPECIFICITY; SYNTHESIS;

STIGMATELLA AURANTIACA;

EID: 0032146266     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00252-3     Document Type: Article

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