Structure and organization of a 25 kbp region of the genome of the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium vibrioforme containing Mg-chelatase encoding genes

Hereditas

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-142

  Petersen, Bent L ^a   Møller, Marianne G ^a   Stummann, Bjarne M ^a   Henningsen, Knud W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; MAGNESIUM; PORPHYRIN; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLOROBIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PROMOTER REGION; PURINE SYNTHESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHODOBACTER; RIBOSOME; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROBIUM VIBRIOFORME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROSTHECOCHLORIS VIBRIOFORMIS; RHODOBACTER; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 0032458991     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1998.00131.x     Document Type: Article

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