Four genes encoding different type I signal peptidases are organized in a cluster in Streptomyces lividans TK21

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2255-2263

  Parro, Víctor ^a   Schacht, Sabine ^b   Anné, Jozef ^b   Mellado, Rafael P ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Secretion; Signal peptidases; Streptomyces

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA FRAGMENT; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

EID: 0032884512     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-9-2255     Document Type: Article

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