Analysis of genes of tetrahydrofolate-dependent metabolism from cultivated spirochaetes and the gut community of the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2529-2537

  Salmassi, Tina M ^a,b   Leadbetter, Jared R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; FORMATE TETRAHYDROFOLATE LIGASE; METHENYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLOHYDROLASE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROCHETE; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; FIRMICUTES; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; ZOOTERMOPSIS; ZOOTERMOPSIS ANGUSTICOLLIS;

EID: 0141814799     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26351-0     Document Type: Article

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