The Streptomyces coelicolor sporulation-specific σ(WhiG) form of RNA polymerase transcribes a gene encoding a ProX-like protein that is dispensable for sporulation

Gene

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 137-146

  Tan, Huarong ^a   Yang, Haihua ^a   Tian, Yuqing ^a   Wu, Wei ^a,b   Whatling, Carl A ^b   Chamberlin, Leony C ^b   Buttner, Mark J ^b   Nodwell, Justin ^c   Chater, Keith F ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycine betaine; Osmoregulation; Promoters; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETAINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETAINE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES;

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

EID: 0032575029     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00152-8     Document Type: Article

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