The Corynebacterium glutamicum genome: Features and impacts on biotechnological processes

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 62, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 99-109

  Ikeda, M ^a   Nakagawa, S ^a,b  

^a KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

^b Xanagen   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DIPHTHERIA; DNA MICROARRAY; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEOMICS; SHORT SURVEY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BASE COMPOSITION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERMENTATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM ATCC 13032; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0042162924     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-003-1328-1     Document Type: Short Survey

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