Article
The spoIIJ gene, which regulates early developmental steps in Bacillus subtilis, belongs to a class of environmentally responsive genes.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 1990
Antoniewski C, Savelli B, Stragier P
Abstract excerpt
The Bacillus subtilis spoIIJ locus is defined by a Tn917 insertion which leads to an oligosporogenous phenotype. Here we show that this mutation severely decreases transcription of spoIIA, spoIIE, and spoIIG, three operons involved in asymmetric septation, the earliest morphological event of sporulation. A 14.3-kilobase region overlapping the site of the spoIIJ::Tn917 insertion was cloned and the exact location...
Topics
- Bacillus subtilis
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genes, Regulator
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Signal Transduction
- Transcription, Genetic