Cloning, characterization and expression analysis of nucleotide metabolism-related genes of mycobacteriophage L5

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-72

  Bhattacharya, Bidisha ^a   Giri, Nabanita ^a   Mitra, Mahasweta ^a   Das Gupta, Sujoy K ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Flavin dependent thymidylate synthase; Multienzyme complex; Phage infection

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 48; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 50; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLORELLA VIRUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LACTOBACILLUS LEICHMANNII; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLAVINS; LYSOGENY; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NUCLEOTIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS LEICHMANNII; MYCOBACTERIUM PHAGE L5; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA CHLORELLA VIRUS 1;

EID: 38849167481     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.01047.x     Document Type: Article

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