Molecular genetic characterisation of whiB3, a mycobacterial homologue of a Streptomyces sporulation factor

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 295-301

  Hutter, Bernd ^a   Dick, Thomas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bacterial growth; Gene disruption; Gene whiB; Mycobacterium smegmatis; Sporulation; Streptomyces coelicolor

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 0032725878     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(99)80055-2     Document Type: Article

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