The complex structure of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) granules: Four orthologous and paralogous phasins occur in Ralstonia eutropha

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2301-2311

  Pötter, Markus ^a   Müller, Helena ^a   Reinecke, Frank ^a   Wieczorek, Roman ^a   Fricke, Florian ^b   Bowien, Botho ^b   Friedrich, Bärbel ^c   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL EXTRACT; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; PHASIN PROTEIN; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); PROTEOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA FUNGORUM; CALCULATION; CELL GRANULE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

AZOTOBACTER; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA FUNGORUM; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA EUTROPHA; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 4344627575     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26970-0     Document Type: Article

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