Organization, structure, and variability of the rRNA operon of the Whipple's disease bacterium (Tropheryma whippelii)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3292-3297

  Maiwald, Matthias ^a   Von Herbay, Axel ^b   Lepp, Paul W ^a   Relman, David A ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOMYCETALES; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS); WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0034035285     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.11.3292-3297.2000     Document Type: Article

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