The expression of a plasmid-specified exported protein causes structural plasmid instability in Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 5235-5242

  Cordes, Christiana ^a   Meima, Rob ^a   Twiest, Berna ^a   Kazemier, Bert ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Van Dijl, Jan Maarten ^a   Bron, Sierd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PENICILLINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029787696     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.17.5235-5242.1996     Document Type: Article

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