Lactobacillus bulgaricus asparagine synthetase and asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase: Coregulation by transcription antitermination?

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2459-2461

  Kim, Sung Il ^a   Germond, Jacques Edouard ^b   Pridmore, David ^b   Söll, Dieter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ASPARAGINE TRANSFER RNA; ASPARTATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

ARTICLE; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII SUBSP. BULGARICUS;

EID: 0345188504     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.8.2459-2461.1996     Document Type: Article

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