ClpP of Bacillus subtilis is required for competence development, motility, degradative enzyme synthesis, growth at high temperature and sporulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 899-914

  Msadek, Tarek ^a   Dartois, Véronique ^a   Kunst, Frank ^a   Herbaud, Marie Laure ^a   Denizot, François ^a   Rapoport, Georges ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MOTILITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPOROGENESIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; GALACTOSIDASES; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031749920     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00735.x     Document Type: Article

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