DBTBS

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since January 25, 2003

Please cite the following reference when you publish your research results using this database:
Ishii, T., Yoshida, K., Terai, G., Fujita, Y., and Nakai, K., DBTBS: A database of Bacillus subtilis promoters and transcription factors, Nucleic Acids Res., 29,278-280 (2001) (NAR online).

Authors

Takahiro Ishii	Pharmadesign, Inc.
Ken-ichi Yoshida	Fukuyama University
Goro Terai	INTEC Web and Genome Informatics Corp.
Yasutaro Fujita	Fukuyama University
Kenta Nakai	Human Genome Center, IMS, U. Tokyo

Version History

Oct. 25, 1999:	Recovery of the server at U. Tokyo
Sep. 1, 2000:	First Public Release
Nov. 6, 2000:	Release 2.0 (search function; extensive updates of data)
Nov. 7, 2000:	Release 2.1 (new promoter table)
Sep. 6, 2001:	Release 2.2 (list of predicted regulons)

Contents

Promoters	Cell envelope and cellular processes
	Intermediary metabolism
	Information pathways
	Other functions
	Category not assigned
Transcription Factors	Sigma factors
	Helix turn helix family
	Other family
	No family assigned
Predicted Regulons (Terai et al., submitted) new!	Prediction results
Predicted Regulons (Terai et al., submitted) new!	Alignment of upstream regions

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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the members of the Japanese B. subtilis genomics project for their help to survey the recent papers with respect to the DNA-binding proteins. We also thank John D. Helmann and Hideto Takami for providing us with their sequence data; Ikuo Uchiyama for a table of orthologous genes between B. subtilis and B. halodurans; Yukiko Nakanishi for the assistance; and the B. stearothermophilus Genome Sequencing Project funded by NSF EPSCoR Program for releasing unfinished sequence data. This work was supported in part by Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology from Science and Technology Agency. KY, YF, and KN were also supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan.