A new Bacillus subtilis gene, med, encodes a positive regulator of comK

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 6244-6253

  Ogura, Mitsuo ^a   Ohshiro, Yasuhiro ^a   Hirao, Shigeharu ^a   Tanaka, Teruo ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030809022     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.20.6244-6253.1997     Document Type: Article

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