The amino-terminal 100 residues of the nitrogen assimilation control protein (NAC) encode all known properties of NAC from Klebsiella aerogenes and Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 934-940

  Muse, Wilson B ^a   Bender, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032945181     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.3.934-940.1999     Document Type: Article

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