WhiD and WhiB, homologous proteins required for different stages of sporulation in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1286-1295

  Molle, Virginie ^a   Palframan, Wendy J ^a   Findlay, Kim C ^a   Buttner, Mark J ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHROMOSOME; COSMID; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COSMIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033969146     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.5.1286-1295.2000     Document Type: Article

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