Identification and characterization of a cell-wall anchored DNase gene in Clostridium perfringens

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 281-285

  Okumura, Kayo ^a   Kawsar, Hameem I ^a   Shimizu, Takeshi ^a   Ohta, Toshiko ^a   Hayashi, Hideo ^a   Shimizu, Tohru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; DNase; Transcriptional regulation; Two component system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CADA PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 11144249932     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.11.019     Document Type: Article

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