Intercellular C-signaling in Myxococcus xanthus involves a branched signal transduction pathway

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 740-754

  Søgaatd Andersen, Lotte ^a   Slack, Frank J ^a,b   Kimsey, Harvey ^a,c   Kaiser, Dale ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C factor signaling; epistasis tests; Intercellular signaling; prokaryotic development; prokaryotic differentiation; starvation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; EPISTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; MYXOCOCCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0029925371     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.6.740     Document Type: Article

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