Gene organization and transcription analysis of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens glycogen (glg) operon: Two transcripts for the single phosphoglucomutase gene

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 6557-6564

  Ugalde, Juan E ^a   Lepek, Viviana ^a   Uttaro, Antonio ^a   Estrella, Julia ^b   Iglesias, Alberto ^b   Ugalde, Rodolfo A ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032414480     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.24.6557-6564.1998     Document Type: Article

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