The Bacillus subtilis genes for ribonucleotide reductase are similar to the genes for the second class I NrdE/NrdF enzymes of Enterobacteriaceae

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2995-3004

  Scotti, Claudio ^a,b   Valbuzzi, Angela ^a   Perego, Marta ^a,c,d   Galizzi, Alessandro ^a   Albertini, Alessandra M ^a  

^a Dipto di Genetica e Microbiologia   (Italy)

^b IGBM   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Genome sequencing; nrdEF operon; Ribonucleotide reductase; ts A13 mutation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; RECA PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE INDUCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; LETHAL MUTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029956573     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-11-2995     Document Type: Article

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