Involvement of acetyl phosphate in the in vivo activation of the response regulator ComA in Bacillus subtilis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 179-183

  Kim, Seong Bin ^a   Shin, Byung Sik ^a   Choi, Soo Keun ^a   Kim, Chi Kyung ^b   Park, Seung Hwan ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acetyl phosphate; Bacillus subtilis; ComA; srfA lacZ; Two component signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ACETYL COENZYME A; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATALYSIS; CELL DENSITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PHOSPHORYLATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 0035916408     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00008-8     Document Type: Article

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