Candidate Genes That May Be Responsible for the Unusual Resistances Exhibited by Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032 Spores

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Tirumalai, Madhan R ^a   Rastogi, Rajat ^a   Zamani, Nader ^a   O'Bryant Williams, Elisha ^a   Allen, Shamail ^b   Diouf, Fatma ^b   Kwende, Sharon ^b   Weinstock, George M ^c   Venkateswaran, Kasthuri J ^d   Fox, George E ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACILLUS SAFENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SPORE; BPUM 0608 GENE; BPUM 0652 GENE; BPUM 0653 GENE; BPUM 0656 GENE; BPUM 3674 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPACECRAFT; SPORES, BACTERIAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACILLUS PUMILUS SAFR-032;

EID: 84879190372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066012     Document Type: Article

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