The aerial mycelium-defective phenotype of Streptomyces griseus resulting from A-factor deficiency is suppressed by a Ser/Thr kinase of S. coelicolor A3(2)

Gene

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-95

  Ueda, Kenji ^a,b   Umeyama, Takashi ^a   Beppu, Teruhiko ^a,b   Horinouchi, Sueharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AfsK; Cell differentiation; Morphogenesis; Protein phosphorylation; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

FACTOR A; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; MUTANT; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; CARBAZOLES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

EID: 0029986352     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00771-7     Document Type: Article

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