Functional relationship between SpoVIF and GerE in gene regulation during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 163-170

  Kuwana, Ritsuko ^a   Ikejiri, Hiromi ^a   Yamamura, Satoko ^a   Takamatsu, Hiromu ^a   Watabe, Kazuhito ^a  

^a SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COAT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 1642473906     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26689-0     Document Type: Article

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