The Bacillus subtilis L-arabinose (ara) operon: Nucleotide sequence, genetic organization and expression

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 957-969

  Sá Nogueira, Isabel ^a   Nogueira, Teresa V ^a,c   Soares, Sónia ^a,d   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Catabolite repression; Expression; L arabinose (ara) operon

Indexed keywords

ARABINOFURANOSIDASE; ARABINOSE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; EPIMERASE; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE; ISOMERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RIBULOSE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 1842364869     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-3-957     Document Type: Article

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