Activity of the osmotically regulated yqiHIK promoter from bacillus subtilis is controlled at a distance

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 5197-5208

  Fischer, Kathleen E ^a   Bremer, Erhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROPHOSPHODIESTER PHOSPHODIESTERASE; HYDROLASE; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, BACTERIAL; SALINITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84868316189     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01041-12     Document Type: Article

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