Functional analysis of 11 putative essential genes in Bacillus subtilis

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2895-2907

  Hunt, Alison ^a   Rawlins, Joy P ^a   Thomaides, Helena B ^b   Errington, Jeff ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN YACA; PROTEIN YDIB; PROTEIN YDIC; PROTEIN YLAN; PROTEIN YMDA; PROTEIN YNES; PROTEIN YQEL; PROTEIN YWLC; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE J1; RIBONUCLEASE Z; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RIBOSOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMASS; CELL WALL; CYTOPLASM; DENSITOMETRY; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; TRIMETHOPRIM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 33749645818     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29152-0     Document Type: Article

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