SdeK is required for early fruiting body development in Myxococcus xanthus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 4628-4637

  Garza, Anthony G ^a   Pollack, Jeffrey S ^a   Harris, Baruch Z ^a   Lee, Albert ^a   Keseler, Ingrid M ^b   Licking, Ellen F ^b   Singer, Mitchell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SDEK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPOROGENESIS;

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

EID: 0031721152     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.17.4628-4637.1998     Document Type: Article

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