Sequence and transcriptional studies of five clustered flagellin genes from hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus kodakaraensis KOD1

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-190

  Nagahisa, Keisuke ^a   Ezaki, Satoshi ^b   Fujiwara, Shinsuke ^a   Imanaka, Tadayuki ^b   Takagi, Masahiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaea; Evolution; Flagellin; Hyperthermophile; Pyrococcus; Transcriptional analysis

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FLAGELLIN; GENES, ARCHAEAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PYROCOCCUS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; HALOPHILIC ARCHAEON; PYROCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARAENSIS;

EID: 0032800749     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00353-5     Document Type: Article

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