The asgE locus is required for cell-cell signalling during Myxococcus xanthus development

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 812-824

  Garza, Anthony G ^a,b   Harris, Baruch Z ^a,c   Pollack, Jeffrey S ^a   Singer, Mitchell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FACTOR A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PRONASE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033962629     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01753.x     Document Type: Article

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