Identification of the pgmG gene, encoding a bifunctional protein with phosphoglucomutase and phosphomannomutase activities, in the gellan gum- producing strain Sphingomonas paucimobilis ATCC 31461

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2252-2258

  Videira, Paula A ^a   Cortes, Luísa L ^a   Fialho, Arsénio M ^a   Sá Correia, Isabel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; PHOSPHOMANNOMUTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; KINETICS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (PHOSPHOMUTASES); PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPHINGOMONAS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

EID: 0034016761     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.2252-2258.2000     Document Type: Article

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