Synthesis of glycine betaine from choline in the moderate halophile halobacillus halophilus: Co-regulation of two divergent, polycistronic operons

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-43

  Burkhardt, Janin ^a   Sewald, Xaver ^a   Bauer, Bettina ^a   Saum, Stephan H ^a   Müller, Volker ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOBACILLUS HALOPHILUS;

EID: 77955321729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2008.00001.x     Document Type: Article

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