Assembly of the CotSA coat protein into spores requires CotS in Bacillus subtilis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 201-206

  Takamatsu, Hiromu ^a   Kodama, Takeko ^a   Watabe, Kazuhito ^a  

^a SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assembly; Bacillus subtilis; CotS; CotSA; Spore coat protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COAT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MUTATION; OPERON; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032927282     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00142-1     Document Type: Article

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