Comparative of ribitol and glycerol teichoic acid genes in Bacillus subtilis W23 and 168: Identical function, similar divergent organization, but different regulation

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 815-824

  Lazarevic, Vladimir ^a   Abellan, François Xavier ^a   Möller, Siham Beggah ^a   Karamata, Dimitri ^a   Mauël, Catherine ^a  

^a Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Microbiennes Universite de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anionic cell wall polymers; Bacillus evolution; Poly(glycerol phosphate) origin; Poly(ribitol phosphate) sequence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIBITOL; TEICHOIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; POLYGLYCEROLPHOSPHATE; POLYRIBITOL PHOSPHATE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RIBITOL TEICHOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLYCOSYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACILLUS GLOBIGII; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEICHOIC ACIDS;

EID: 0036006036     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-3-815     Document Type: Article

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