Analysis of the Bacillus subtilis genome: Cloning and nucleotide sequence of a 62 kb region between 275°(rrnB) and 284°(pai)

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2769-2774

  Oudega, Bauke ^a   Koningstein, Gregory ^a   Rodrigues, Luísa ^a   Ramon, Maria De Sales ^a   Hilbert, Helmut ^b   Düsterhöft, Andreas ^b   Pohl, Thomas M ^c   Weitzenegger, Thomas ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b QIAGEN GMBH   (Germany)

^c GATC Gesell F Analyse Technik C   (Germany)

Author keywords

275 284 region; Bacillus subtilis; Genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BUTANOL; CONTIG; DNA FRAGMENT; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCAN 1,4 ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; ISOMERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RHAMNOSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON SODIUM EXCHANGE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

BACILLUS ALCALOPHILUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM;

EID: 0030765766     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-8-2769     Document Type: Article

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