The SpoIIE phosphatase, the sporulation septum and the establishment of forespore-specific transcription in Bacillus subtilis: A reassessment

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1407-1415

  Arigoni, Fabrizio ^a,c   Guérout Fleury, Anne Marie ^a,d   Barák, Imrich ^b   Stragier, Patrick ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c SERONO PHARMACEUTICAL RES INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATASE; SERINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033054358     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01282.x     Document Type: Article

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