A 23,911 bp region of the Bacillus subtilis genome comprising genes located upstream and downstream of the lev operon

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1321-1326

  Parro, Víctor ^a   San Román, Marta ^a   Galindo, Inmaculada ^a   Purnelle, Bénédicte ^b   Bolotin, Alexander ^c   Sorokin, Alexei ^c   Mellado, Rafael P ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

adh; Bacillus subtilis; cns; Genomic sequencing; Lysr family

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHITOSAN; CHITOSANASE; DNA FRAGMENT; PERMEASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030982635     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-4-1321     Document Type: Article

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