Molecular genetics of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1996, Pages 297-341

  Stragier, Patrick ^a   Losick, Richard ^b  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0030457111     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.30.1.297     Document Type: Review

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