Phosphate starvation induces the sporulation killing factor of Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 5299-5303

  Allenby, Nicholas E E ^a   Watts, Carys A ^b   Homuth, Georg ^b   Prágai, Zoltán ^b,d   Wipat, Anil ^a   Ward, Alan C ^a   Harwood, Colin R ^b,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d DSM NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL KILLING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULON; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, REPORTER; KINETICS; PHOSPHATES; PLASMIDS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 33745892606     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00084-06     Document Type: Article

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