Transcriptional program of early sporulation and stationary-phase events in Clostridium acetobutylicum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7103-7118

  Alsaker, Keith V ^a   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AAD CTFA CTFB GENE; ACIDITY; ADC GENE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; DNA MICROARRAY; EXPONENTIAL PHASE GROWTH; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; MEGAPLASMID; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOL1 GENE; REGULON; SIGE GENE; SIGF GENE; SOLUBILITY; SPOOA GENE; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IONS; LIPID METABOLISM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; SIGE;

EID: 26444483354     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.20.7103-7118.2005     Document Type: Article

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