Controlling competence in Bacillus subtilis: Shared use of regulators

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-17

  Hamoen, Leendert W ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COMPETENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

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

EID: 0037261785     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26003-0     Document Type: Review

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