Sequence of the Bacillus subtilis genome region in the vicinity of the lev operon reveals two new extracytoplasmic function RNA polymerase sigma factors SigV and SigZ

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2939-2943

  Sorokin, Alexei ^a   Bolotin, Alexandre ^a   Purnelle, Bénédicte ^b   Hilbert, Helmut ^c   Lauber, Juergen ^c   Düsterhöft, Andreas ^c   Ehrlich, S D ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c QIAGEN GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis genome sequencing; Extra cytoplasmic function factors

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; GENE PRODUCT; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030770179     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-9-2939     Document Type: Article

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