Isolation and characterization of a purC(orf)QLF operon from lactobacillus lactis MG1614

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-41

  Peltonen, T ^a   Mantsala P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

De novo purine nucleotide biosynthesis; Gene regulation; Glutamine PRPP amidotransferase; Lactococcous lactis; purC(orf)QLF operon

Indexed keywords

AMIDOPHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PURINE NUCLEOTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033021210     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050938     Document Type: Article

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