The positions of the sigma-factor genes, whiG and sigF, in the hierarchy controlling the development of spore chains in the aerial hyphae of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 593-603

  Kelemen, Gabriella H ^a,b   Brown, Gary L ^a,d   Kormanec, Ján ^c   Potúčková, Laura ^c   Chater, Keith F ^a   Buttner, Mark J ^a,b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 0029787353     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02567.x     Document Type: Article

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