Novel surface layer protein genes in Bacillus sphaericus associated with unusual insertion elements

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2961-2973

  Pollmann, Katrin ^a   Raff, Johannes ^a   Schnorpfeil, Michaela ^a   Radeva, Galina ^a,b   Selenska Pobell, Sonja ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; SURFACE LAYER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSPOSASES;

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS;

EID: 24944443268     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28201-0     Document Type: Article

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