Genes required for cytochrome c synthesis in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 638-650

  Le Brun, Nick E ^a,b   Bengtsson, Jenny ^a   Hederstedt, Lars ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CHLOROPLAST; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; CYANOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034058146     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01883.x     Document Type: Article

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