Article
Identification of comS, a gene of the srfA operon that regulates the establishment of genetic competence in Bacillus subtilis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Sept 1994
D'Souza C, Nakano M M, Zuber P
Abstract excerpt
Genetic competence (the ability to internalize exogenous DNA) in Bacillus subtilis is dependent on a regulatory pathway that activates the expression of a battery of competence-specific genes. The srfA operon, encoding the subunits of surfactin synthetase, which catalyzes the nonribosomal synthesis of the peptide antibiotic surfactin, also functions in the competence regulatory pathway. The DNA encoding only one...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacillus subtilis
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Escherichia coli
- Frameshift Mutation
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Molecular Sequence Data