Identification and analysis of four candidate symbiosis genes from 'Chlorochromatium aggregatum', a highly developed bacterial symbiosis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2842-2856

  Vogl, Kajetan ^a   Wenter, Roland ^a   Dreßen, Martina ^a   Schlickenrieder, Martina ^a   Plöscher, Matthias ^a   Eichacker, Lutz ^a   Overmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; HEMOLYSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROBI; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLOROBI; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTININS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBI; CHLOROCHROMATIUM AGGREGATUM; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 51649095332     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01709.x     Document Type: Article

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