The mechanism of cell differentiation in Bacillus subtilis

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7091, 2006, Pages 371-374

  Iber, Dagmar ^a   Clarkson, Joanna ^b   Yudkin, Michael D ^b   Campbell, Iain D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENZYMES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROTEINS;

DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHATASE; PRIMARY TRIGGER; PROTEIN KINASE;

BACTERIA;

PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; FLIA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; HOLOENZYME; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORE SPECIFIC PROTEINS, BACILLUS; SPORE-SPECIFIC PROTEINS, BACILLUS;

BACTERIUM; DIFFERENTIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPORULATION;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOLOENZYMES; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 33744976080     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04666     Document Type: Article

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