Rhizobium (Sinorhizobium) meliloti phn genes: Characterization and identification of their protein products

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 389-395

  Parker, George F ^a   Higgins, Timothy P ^a   Hawkes, Timothy ^b   Robson, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b JEALOTT S HILL RESEARCH STATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOETHYLPHOSPHONIC ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LYASE; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0032900614     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.2.389-395.1999     Document Type: Article

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