Functional analysis of the secretory precursor processing machinery of Bacillus subtilis: Identification of a eubacterial homolog of archaeal and eukaryotic signal peptidases

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2318-2331

  Tjalsma, Harold ^a   Bolhuis, Albert ^a   Van Roosmalen, Maarten L ^a   Wiegert, Thomas ^b   Schumann, Wolfgang ^b   Broekhuizen, Cees P ^c   Quax, Wim J ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Bron, Sierd ^a   Van Dijl, Jan Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c Genencor International   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Leader peptidase; Paralogous gene family; Protein secretion; Signal peptidase

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SECRETION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; EUKARYOTA; OCTODON DEGUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032146073     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.15.2318     Document Type: Article

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