Autoaggregation of Lactobacillus reuteri is mediated by a putative DEAD-box helicase

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 427-436

  Roos, Stefan ^a   Lindgren, Sven ^a   Jonsson, Hans ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HELICASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL CLONE; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LACTOBACILLUS; MALTOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0032922206     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01363.x     Document Type: Article

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