A novel amidohydrolase gene from Bacillus subtilis cloning: DNA-sequence analysis and map position of amhX

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 141, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 129-137

  Kempf, Bettina ^a,b   Bremer, Erhard ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amidohydrolase; Bacillus subtilis; Bi directional terminator; Gene mapping; opuA operon; Promoter

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMPICILLIN; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; HYDROLASE; KANAMYCIN; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMOSOME; CLONING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OPUA; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 0030221865     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00181-4     Document Type: Article

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