Transcriptional analysis of three Bacillus subtilis genes coding for proteins with the α-crystallin domain characteristic of small heat shock proteins

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 99-103

  Reischl, Silke ^a   Thake, Sandra ^a   Homuth, Georg ^b   Schumann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crystallin domain; Small heat shock protein; Spore coat protein; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN COTM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN COTP; BACTERIAL PROTEIN YOCM; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035174260     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00511-5     Document Type: Article

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