A functional plasmid-borne rrn operon in soil isolates belonging to the genus Paracoccus

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3587-3593

  Battermann, Anja ^a   Disse Krömker, Claudia ^a   Dreiseikelmann, Brigitte ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE; PLASMID DNA; PLASMID VECTOR; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; RNA 5S; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PARACOCCUS; PARACOCCUS AMINOPHILUS; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PARACOCCUS VERSUTUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PARACOCCUS; PARACOCCUS AMINOPHILUS; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PARACOCCUS VERSUTUS; PROKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0346882650     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26608-0     Document Type: Article

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