Isolation and characterization of 14 additional genes specifying the anaerobic biosynthesis of cobalamin (vitamin B12) in Propionibacterium freudenreichii (P. shermanii)

The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AY033235, AY033236, U13043 and U51164.

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