Sporulation timing in Myxococcus xanthus is controlled by the espAB locus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 714-725

  Cho, Kyungyun ^a   Zusman, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

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

EID: 0032703539     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01633.x     Document Type: Article

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