Analysis of RNase P protein (rnpA) expression in Bacillus subtilis utilizing strains with suppressible rnpA expression

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6816-6823

  Gößringer, Markus ^a   Far, Rosel Kretschmer Kazemi ^b   Hartmann, Roland K ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GENE PRODUCT; HISTONE; HOLOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEASE P; XYLOSE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RNPA GENE; RNPB GENE; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, INITIATOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33749334411     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00756-06     Document Type: Article

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