Cloning and characterization of polyphosphate kinase and exopolyphosphatase genes from Pseudomonas aeruginosa 8830

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2065-2071

  Zago, Anna ^a   Chugani, Sudha ^a,b   Chakrabarty, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; EXOPOLYPHOSPHATASE; POLYPHOSPHATE; POLYPHOSPHATE KINASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0032899360     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.5.2065-2071.1999     Document Type: Article

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