Structure of the urease operon of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 383-394

  Puskás, László G ^a,b   Inui, Masayuki ^b   Yukawa, Hideaki ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium glutamicum; PH shift; structural genes; urease operon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE STRUCTURE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGY; NITROGEN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; TRANSACTIVATION; UREASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; UREA; UREASE;

EID: 0034447572     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10425170009033989     Document Type: Article

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