Cloning and sequencing of a new holin-encoding gene of Bacillus licheniformis

Gene

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-65

  Kyogoku, Kenji ^a   Sekiguchi, Junichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amidase; Cell wall hydrolase genes; cwlL operon

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; HOLIN; HYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL WALL; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030062829     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00690-7     Document Type: Article

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