The extracellular PHR peptide-rap phosphatase signaling circuit of bacillus subtilis

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn , Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Pottathil, Mridula ^a   Lazazzera, Beth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Bacteria; Cell Cell Signaling; Gram positive bacteria; Spore Forming Bacteria; Microbiology; Oligopeptide Permease; Peptide Signaling; Phosphatase; Quorum Sensing; Review; TPR Domain; Response Regulators

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATASE; RAP PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESTERASE; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHRC PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; RAPA PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; RAPC PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESTERASES; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0141735901     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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