Cloning, sequencing and expression of the flagellin core protein and other genes encoding structural proteins of the Vibrio cholerae flagellum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 239-246

  Das, Margaret ^a   Chopra, Ashok K ^a   Wood, Thomas ^b   Peterson, Johnny W ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase promoter system; DNA sequencing; Flagellar protein; Gene cloning; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; FLAGELLIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0032453569     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00283-3     Document Type: Article

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