Mutations in FlbD that relieve the dependency on flagellum assembly alter the temporal and spatial pattern of developmental transcription in Caulobacter crescentus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 597-615

  Muir, Rachel E ^a   Gober, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FIBD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLIX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BINDING SITE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036270736     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02728.x     Document Type: Article

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