A response regulator-like protein that functions at an intermediate stage of sporulation in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 607-619

  Ainsa, José A ^a   Parry, Huw D ^a,b   Chater, Keith F ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032723829     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01630.x     Document Type: Article

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