The Spo0A regulon of Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1683-1701

  Molle, Virginie ^a,c   Fujita, Masaya ^a   Jensen, Shane T ^b   Eichenberger, Patrick ^a   González Pastor, José E ^a   Liu, Jun S ^b   Losick, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENZYME; GENE PRODUCT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SPOOA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CHEMOTAXIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; REGULON; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; REGULON; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

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

EID: 0346256789     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03818.x     Document Type: Article

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