Analysis of spore photoprodnct lyase operon (splAB) function using targeted deletion-insertion mutations spanning the Bacillus subtilis operons ptsHI and splAB

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 255, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 587-594

  Nicholson, W L ^a   Chooback, L ^b   Fajardo Cavazos, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; DNA repair; Spore photoproduct; Spore photoproduct lyase; Spore UV resistance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CONTIG; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; GENE PRODUCT; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; IRON; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN; SPORE PHOTOPRODUCT LYASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA REPAIR; GENE CASSETTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPORE GERMINATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPAIR; GENE TARGETING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSE; HEAT; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PROTEINS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, BACTERIAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0030610788     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050532     Document Type: Article

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