Involvement of a Che-like signal transduction cascade in regulating cyst cell development in Rhodospirillum centenum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1457-1466

  Berleman, James E ^a,b   Bauer, Carl E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEA KINASE; CHEB KINASE; CHES KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; CHEY PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; CHE GENE; CHEMOTAXIS; DELETION MUTANT; DESICCATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOSPIRILLUM CENTENUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; RHODOSPIRILLUM CENTENUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

RHODOSPIRILLUM CENTENUM;

EID: 20344393380     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04646.x     Document Type: Article

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