Cloning and molecular characterization of the citrate utilization citMCDEFGRP cluster of Leuconostoc paramesenteroides

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 231-238

  Martín, Mauricio ^a,b   Corrales, Maria Angeles ^a   De Mendoza, Diego ^b   López, Paloma ^a   Magni, Christian ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Citrate lyase; Citrate permease; Citrate utilization; Lactic acid bacterium; Leuconostoc

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; DNA FRAGMENT; LYASE; PERMEASE;

ARTICLE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; LEUCONOSTOC; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRIC ACID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEUCONOSTOC; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; OXO-ACID-LYASES; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEUCONOSTOC; WEISSELLA PARAMESENTEROIDES;

EID: 0032913815     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00145-7     Document Type: Article

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