Functional Analysis of the ComK Protein of Bacillus coagulans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kovács, Ákos T ^a,d   Eckhardt, Tom H ^a   van Kranenburg, Richard ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c KLUYVER CENTRE FOR GENOMICS OF INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION   (Netherlands)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS COAGULANS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMC GENE; COMGA GENE; COMK GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS COAGULANS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84871877455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053471     Document Type: Article

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