Cloning of a novel gene yrbB, encoding a protein located in the spore integument of Bacillus subtilis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 361-367

  Takamatsu, Hiromu ^a   Hiraoka, Takeyuki ^a,d   Kodama, Takeko ^a   Koide, Hidekatsu ^b   Kozuka, Satoshi ^c   Tochikubo, Kunio ^c   Watabe, Kazuhito ^a  

^a SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Meditopia Research Center   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d Ohkura Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Spore integument protein; yrbB; YrbB

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; YRBB PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0032530007     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb13913.x     Document Type: Article

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