Expression of the genes for guanyl-specific ribonucleases from Bacillus intermedius and Bacillus pumilus is regulated by the two component signal transduction system PhoP-PhoR in B. subtilis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 217-222

  Znamenskaya, Lilia V ^a   Vershinina, Olga A ^a   Vershinina, Valentina I ^a   Leshchinskaya, Inna B ^a   Hartley, Robert W ^b  

^a KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus; Gene regulation; PHO regulon; Ribonuclease

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULON; RIBONUCLEASE T1; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0344197082     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00077-4     Document Type: Article

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