The 25°-36° region of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome: Determination of the sequence of a 146 kb segment and identification of 113 genes

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3047-3056

  Yamane, Kunio ^a   Kumano, Miyuki ^a   Kurita, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

amyE srfA region; Bacillus subtilis; Genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; DATA BASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029854581     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-11-3047     Document Type: Article

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