New small, acid-soluble proteins unique to spores of Bacillus subtilis: Identification of the coding genes and regulation and function of two of these genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 6704-6712

  Bagyan, Irina ^a   Setlow, Barbara ^a   Setlow, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032444114     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.24.6704-6712.1998     Document Type: Article

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