Signaling in myxobacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2004, Pages 75-98

  Kaiser, Dale ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gliding motility; Microbial development; Morphogenesis; Sporulation; Type IV pili

Indexed keywords

2 OXOISOVALERATE DEHYDROGENASE (LIPOAMIDE); BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 3; LOND PROTEINASE; LONV PROTEINASE; PROTEIN P25; PROTEINASE; RNA POLYMERASE; STIGMALONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; BSG GENE; CELL CONTACT; CELL MOTILITY; DSG GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESG GENE; FRUITING BODY; MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STARVATION; STIGMATELLA AURANTIACA;

MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STIGMATELLA AURANTIACA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEISSERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STIGMATELLA AURANTIACA;

EID: 3042548915     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.58.030603.123620     Document Type: Review

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