Sequencing and Characterization of pBM400 from Bacillus megaterium QM B1551

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6888-6898

  Scholle, Michael D ^a,b   White, Christen A ^a   Kunnimalaiyaan, Muthusamy ^a,c   Vary, Patricia S ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIA; BIOMARKERS; DEGRADATION; DNA; GENES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RNA; STYRENE;

CELL DIVISION; PLASMIDS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CADMIUM; CELL MARKER; COPPER; DNA; FTSK PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; HEAVY METAL; PROTEIN PBM400; PROTEIN REC; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; STYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM QM B1551; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LACTOCOCCUS; MEGAPLASMID; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PLASMID PXO1; PREDICTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; LACTOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0242657392     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6888-6898.2003     Document Type: Article

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