The signal peptidase II (lsp) gene of Bacillus subtilis

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1327-1333

  Prágai, Zoltán ^a,b   Tjalsma, Harold ^a   Bolhuis, Albert ^a   Van Dijl, Jan Maarten ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Bron, Sierd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Leader peptidase II; Lipoprotein; Lsp; Signal peptidase II

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLOBOMYCIN; ISOLEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; PYRIMIDINE; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0038258600     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-4-1327     Document Type: Article

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