Sequence of the 305°-307° region of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3079-3088

  Soldo, Blazenka ^a   Lazarevic, Vladimir ^a   Mauël, Catherine ^a   Karamata, Dimitri ^a  

^a Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Microbiennes Universite de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Genome sequencing; yvhJ secA region

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CELL MOTILITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FLAGELLUM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029961960     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-11-3079     Document Type: Article

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