Rolling-circle plasmids from Bacillus subtilis: Complete nucleolide sequences and analyses of genes of pTA1015, pTA1040, pTA1050 and pTA1060, and comparisons with related plasmids from Gram-positive bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 337-368

  Meijer, Wilfried J J ^a,d   Wisman, G Bea A ^a   Terpstra, Peter ^b   Thorsted, Peter B ^c   Thomas, Chris M ^c   Holsappel, S ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Bron, Sierd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Mobilization; Replication module; Response aspartate phosphatase; Rolling circle plasmid; Signal peptidase

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REVIEW;

EID: 0031905297     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(98)00003-5     Document Type: Article

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