Integration into the phage attachment site, attB, impairs multicellular differentiation in Stigmatella aurantiaca

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1701-1709

  Müller, Susanne ^a,c   Shen, Hui ^b   Hofmann, Diana ^c   Schairer, Hans Ulrich ^c   Kirby, John R ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL RNA; INTEGRASE; TRANSFER RNA; VALINE;

ATTB GENE; ATTP GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE MX8; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FRUITING BODY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LIFE CYCLE; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA GENE; RNA PROCESSING; STARVATION; STIGMATELLA AURANTIACA; STOP CODON; TRND GENE; TRNV GENE; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RNA, TRANSFER, ASP; RNA, TRANSFER, VAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STIGMATELLA AURANTIACA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE MX8; FUNGI; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; STIGMATELLA AURANTIACA;

EID: 33644783109     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.5.1701-1709.2006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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