The DNA secondary structure of the Bacillus subtilis genome

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-30

  Tosato, Valentina ^a   Gjuracic, Kresimir ^a   Vlahovicek, Kristian ^a   Pongor, Sandor ^a   Danchin, Antoine ^b   Bruschi, Carlo V ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis genome; Bending; Bioinformatic analysis; DNA hairpins; Secondary structures

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA BASE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOME ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037458148     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01032-7     Document Type: Article

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