Cloning and characterisation of a novel ompB operon from Vibrio cholerae 569B

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1444, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 269-275

  Tow, Lemese Ah ^a   Coyne, Vernon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

(Vibrio cholerae); envZ; Intergenic region; ompR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; OPERON; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE 569B;

EID: 0033573960     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(98)00277-2     Document Type: Article

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