Growth and Sporulation of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 under Defined Conditions: Temporal Expression of Genes for Key Sigma Factors

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2514-2519

  De Vries, Ynte P ^a,b   Hornstra, Luc M ^a,b   De Vos, Willem M ^a   Abee, Tjakko ^a,b  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FERMENTATION; GENES; PH EFFECTS;

GENE EXPRESSION; SPORES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

SIGMA FACTOR;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL VIABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS ATCC 14579; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 13544277246     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2514-2519.2004     Document Type: Article

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