The Product of a Developmental Gene, crgA, that Coordinates Reproductive Growth in Streptomyces Belongs to a Novel Family of Small Actinomycete-Specific Proteins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 6678-6685

  Del Sol, Ricardo ^a   Pitman, Andrew ^b   Herron, Paul ^a   Dyson, Paul ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CRGA GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES AVERMITILIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0242490804     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.22.6678-6685.2003     Document Type: Article

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