kinA mRNA is missing a stop codon in the undomesticated Bacillus subtilis strain ATCC 6051

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-63

  Kobayashi, Kazuo ^a   Kuwana, Ritsuko ^b   Takamatsu, Hiromu ^b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROSPOROGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 38849132849     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/011783-0     Document Type: Article

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