Isolation and cloning of a Azospirillum lipoferum locus that complements Escherichia coli proU mutant

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 241-247

  Tripathi, Anil Kumar ^a   Mishra, Bal Mukund ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Azospirillum lipoferum; Glycine betaine; proU; Salinity stress

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM; COSMID; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; AZOSPIRILLUM; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; TIME FACTORS;

AZOSPIRILLUM LIPOFERUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032525276     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00129-3     Document Type: Article

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