Identification of sporulation genes by genome-wide analysis of the σE regulon of Bacillus subtilis

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 3023-3034

  Feucht, Andrea ^a   Evans, Louise ^a   Errington, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0142106366     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26413-0     Document Type: Article

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