Purification, kinetic properties, and intracellular concentration of spoiie, an integral membrane protein that regulates sporulation in bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3242-3245

  Lucet, Isabelle ^a   Borriss, Rainer ^b   Yudkin, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SPOIIE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL LEVEL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032955009     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.10.3242-3245.1999     Document Type: Article

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