Genotype, phenotype, and protein structure in a regulator of sporulation: Effects of mutations in the spoIIAA gene of Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3860-3863

  Barilià, Daniela ^a,b   Lucet, Isabelle ^a   Kuhlmann, Anne ^a,c   Yudkin, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 0033052940     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.12.3860-3863.1999     Document Type: Article

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