Molecular analysis of an operon in Bacillus subtilis encoding a novel ABC transporter with a role in exoprotein production, sporulation and competence

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-77

  Leskelä, Soile ^a   Kontinen, Vesa P ^a   Sarvas, Matti ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Bacillus subtilis; ecs operon; Secreted proteins

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BINDING SITE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS;

EID: 0030031254     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-1-71     Document Type: Article

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