Genomic distribution and functions of uptake signal sequences in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3319-3325

  Wang, Ying ^a,c   Orvis, Joshua ^b   Dyer, David ^b   Chen, Casey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PLASMID DNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 33750950259     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29018-0     Document Type: Article

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