Molecular characterization of a gene region involved in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Bradyrhizobium japonicum: Cloning, sequencing and expression of rfaf gene

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-114

  So, Jae Seong ^a   Kim, Woo Sik ^a   Stacey, Gary ^b  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementation; DNA sequencing; Heptosyl transferase; Lipopolysaccharide; Lipopolysaccharide mutant

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; HEPTOSE; NOVOBIOCIN; TRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM;

EID: 0034283734     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00289-5     Document Type: Article

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