Distribution of plasmid-borne stress protein genes in Streptococcus thermophilus and other lactic acid bacteria

Current Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-47

  Somkuti, George A ^a   Steinberg, Dennis H ^a  

^a EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; HEAT STRESS; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS; LEUCONOSTOC; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0032908172     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006770     Document Type: Article

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