A second gene for Type I signal peptidase in Bradyrhizobium japonicum, sipF, is located near genes involved in RNA processing and cell division

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 260, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 346-356

  Bairl, A ^a   Muller P ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bradyrhizobium japonicum; Signal peptidase; Symbiotic interaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA FRAGMENT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; RIBONUCLEASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CELL DIVISION; DATA BASE; DNA PROBE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCINE MAX; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0031794380     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050903     Document Type: Article

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