A developmentally regulated gene encoding a repressor-like protein is essential for sporulation in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 343-357

  Ryding, N Jamie ^a,c   Kelemen, Gabriella H ^c   Whatling, Carl A ^b,c   Flärdh, Klas ^c   Buttner, Mark J ^c   Chater, Keith F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HOMEOSTASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031872416     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00939.x     Document Type: Article

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