The ssgB gene, encoding a member of the regulon of stress-response sigma factor σH, is essential for aerial mycelium septation in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 380-384

  Sevcikova, Beatrica ^a   Kormanec, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Gene disruption; Recombinant DNA; RNA polymerase; Sigma factor; Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2); Stress response

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0242660593     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-003-0603-y     Document Type: Article

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