Conservation and divergence in cellulosome architecture between two strains of Ruminococcus flavefaciens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 7971-7976

  Jindou, Sadanari ^a   Borovok, Ilya ^a   Rincon, Marco T ^b   Flint, Harry J ^b   Antonopoulos, Dionysios A ^c   Berg, Margret E ^c   White, Bryan A ^c   Bayer, Edward A ^d   Lamed, Raphael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELLULOSOME; SCAFFOLDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSOMES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RUMINOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS;

EID: 33751113567     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00973-06     Document Type: Article

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