Extracellular DNA Release by Undomesticated Bacillus subtilis Is Regulated by Early Competence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Zafra, Olga ^a   Lamprecht Grandío, María ^a   de Figueras, Carolina González ^a   González Pastor, José Eduardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; COMXP GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA METABOLISM; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TRANSFER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC SCREENING; MFD GENE; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPPA GENE; OPPF GENE; PHENOTYPE; QUORUM SENSING; TOPA GENE; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84868319858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048716     Document Type: Article

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