Bifunctional protein required for asymmetric cell division and cell-specific transcription in Bacillus subtilis

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 794-803

  Feucht, Andrea ^a   Magnin, Thierry ^b   Yudkin, Michael D ^b   Errington, Jeffery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti factor; Asymmetric cell division; Bacillus subtilis; Phosphatase; Phosphorylation; Septation; Sporulation; factor

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS; OPERON; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 0030012129     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.7.794     Document Type: Article

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