The response regulator PhoP4 is required for late developmental events in Myxococcus xanthus

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1609-1620

  Pham, Vinh D ^a,c   Shebelut, Conrad W ^a,d   Jose, Ivy R ^a   Hodgson, David A ^b   Whitworth, David E ^b   Singer, Mitchell H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE REGULATION PROTEIN 4; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33745238673     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28820-0     Document Type: Article

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