Identification of a chemotaxis gene region from Pseudomonas putida

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 267-273

  Ditty, Jayna L ^a   Grimm, Ann C ^a   Harwood, Caroline S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatic compound; Chemotaxis gene; Pseudomonas putida

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0032519986     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00581-8     Document Type: Article

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