The β-glucoside genes of Klebsiella aerogenes: Conservation and divergence in relation to the cryptic bgl genes of Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 267-274

  Raghunand, Tirumalai R ^a   Mahadevan, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Antiterminators; Cryptic genes; Gene silencing; glucosides

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDE; GLUCOSIDASE; GLUCOSIDE; PHOSPHO BETA GLUCOSIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DATA BASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0038771945     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00393-8     Document Type: Article

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