Cloning and transcriptional analysis of the Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus strain 39E maltose ABC transport system

Extremophiles

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 291-299

  Jones, Chris R ^a,b   Ray, Myrna ^a   Strobel, Herbert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC transport; Bioconversion; Maltose; Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus; Transcript analysis; Transport

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; THERMOANAEROBACTER ETHANOLICUS; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS LITORALIS;

ABC TRANSPORTER; MALTOSE; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MALTOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036691499     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-001-0256-1     Document Type: Article

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