Multiple rRNA operons are essential for efficient cell growth and sporulation as well as outgrowth in Bacillus subtilis

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART11, 2013, Pages 2225-2236

  Yano, Koichi ^a,e   Wada, Tetsuya ^a   Suzuki, Shota ^a   Tagami, Kazumi ^a   Matsumoto, Takashi ^b   Shiwa, Yuh ^b   Ishige, Taichiro ^b   Kawaguchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Masuda, Kenta ^a   Akanuma, Genki ^c   Nanamiya, Hideaki ^d   Niki, Hironori ^e,f   Yoshikawa, Hirofumi ^b   Kawamura, Fujio ^a,b  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^f GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH RATE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SPORE GERMINATION; SPOROGENESIS; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL DIVISION; DNA TRANSFORMATION COMPETENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, ESSENTIAL; LOCOMOTION; MUTATION; RRNA OPERON; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84886713947     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.067025-0     Document Type: Article

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