@article{mbs:/content/journal/micro/10.1099/13500872-141-2-329, author = "Lazarevic, Vladimir and Mauël, Catherine and Soldo, Blazenka and Freymond, Pierre-Philippe and Margot, Philippe and Karamata, Dimitri", title = "Sequence analysis of the 308° to 311° segment of the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome, a region devoted to cell wall metabolism, containing non-coding grey holes which reveal chromosomal rearrangements", journal= "Microbiology", year = "1995", volume = "141", number = "2", pages = "329-335", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/13500872-141-2-329", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/13500872-141-2-329", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2080", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "genome sequencing", keywords = "Bacillus subtilis", keywords = "grey holes", abstract = "SUMMARY The 29·71 kb chromosomal region of Bacillus subtilis 168 extending from 308° to 311° contains 18 ORFs. Functions of most of these ORFs were identified and associated with cell wall metabolism. Sequences of two non-coding regions of 0·7 and 2·2 kb flanking the ggaAB operon involved in the synthesis of poly(3-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate), a minor teichoic acid, correspond to five degenerate segments of neighbouring protein-coding regions. We discuss the possibility that such grey holes are indicative of a chromosomal rearrangement which could have arisen from horizontal gene transfer.", }