Immunological crossreactivity to the catabolite control protein CcpA from Bacillus megaterium is found in many Gram-positive bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 139, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 109-115

  Küster, Elke ^a   Luesink, Evert J ^b   De Vos, Willem M ^b   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacillus megaterium; carbon catabolite repression; gram positive bacteria; immunoblot assay; LacI GalR family

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0343182993     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00126-7     Document Type: Article

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