The Bacillus subtilis yabG gene is transcribed by SigK RNA polymerase during sporulation, and yabG mutant spores have altered coat protein composition

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1883-1888

  Takamatsu, Hiromu ^a   Kodama, Takeko ^a   Imamura, Atsuo ^a   Asai, Kei ^b   Kobayashi, Kazuo ^b   Nakayama, Tatsuo ^c   Ogasawara, Naotake ^b   Watabe, Kazuhito ^a  

^a SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COAT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROFORM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MURAMIDASE; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; SIGE;

EID: 0034023215     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.7.1883-1888.2000     Document Type: Article

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