A Bacillus subtilis gene cluster similar to the Escherichia coli phosphate-specific transport (pst) operon: Evidence for a tandemly arranged pstB gene

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2017-2020

  Takemaru, Ken Ichi ^a,b   Mizuno, Motoki ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Genome sequencing project; Phosphate specific transport operon; pstB; Tandem genes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029839845     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-8-2017     Document Type: Article

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