Signalling network with a bistable hysteretic switch controls developmental activation of the σF transcription factor in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 165-184

  Igoshin, Oleg A ^a   Price, Chester W ^b   Savageau, Michael A ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SPOIIAA; PROTEIN SPOIIAB; SERINE; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYSTERESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALGORITHMS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33745197543     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05212.x     Document Type: Article

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