Bacillus subtilis mutants harbouring a single copy of the rRNA operon exhibit severe defects in growth and sporulation

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2944-2952

  Nanamiya, Hideaki ^a,b   Sato, Makiko ^a   Masuda, Kenta ^a   Sato, Mikiko ^a   Wada, Tetsuya ^a   Suzuki, Shota ^a   Natori, Yousuke ^a   Katano, Masato ^a   Akanuma, Genki ^a,c   Kawamura, Fujio ^a  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SPOROGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; MUTATION; RIBOSOMES; RRNA OPERON; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77957861595     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.035295-0     Document Type: Article

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