A 35.7 kb DNA fragment from the Bacillus subtilis chromosome containing a putative 12.3 kb operon involved in hexuronate catabolism and a perfectly symmetrical hypothetical catabolite-responsive element

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 877-884

  Rivolta, Carlo ^a   Soldo, Blazenka ^a   Lazarevic, Vladimir ^a   Joris, Bernard ^b   Mauël, Catherine ^a   Karamata, Dimitri ^a  

^a Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Microbiennes Universite de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Catabolite repression; Genome sequencing; Hexuronate catabolism

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GLUCURONIC ACID; GLUCURONIDE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE; HEXURONIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PALINDROMIC DNA; PYRUVIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031955932     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-4-877     Document Type: Article

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