Compartmentalization of gene expression during Bacillus subtilis spore formation

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 234-262

  Hilbert, David W ^a,b   Piggot, Patrick J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SPOOJA; PROTEIN SPOOJB; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR E; SIGMA FACTOR F; SIGMA FACTOR G; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULON; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLACEAE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 2942616403     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.68.2.234-262.2004     Document Type: Review

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