Characterization of a morphological checkpoint coupling cell-specific transcription to septation in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1015-1026

  Feucht, Andrea ^a   Daniel, Richard A ^a   Errington, Jeffery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATASE; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032832769     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01543.x     Document Type: Article

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