Cloning and expression in escherichia coli of a gene, hup, encoding the histone-like protein HU of bifidobacterium longum

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 598-603

  Takeuchi, Akio ^a   Matsumura, Hajime ^a   Kano, Yasunobu ^a  

^a KYOTO PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bifidobacterium longum; DNA binding proteins HU and IHF; Hup gene encoding histone like protein HBl; Propagation of Mu phage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; H NS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; H-NS PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE MU; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE MU; BASE SEQUENCE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036490245     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.66.598     Document Type: Article

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