FibA and PilA act cooperatively during fruiting body formation of Myxococcus xanthus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1283-1293

  Bonner, Pamela J ^a,c   Black, Wesley P ^b   Yang, Zhaomin ^b   Shimkets, Lawrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PROTEIN DIFD; PROTEIN FIBA; PROTEIN PILA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC METALLOPROTEASE;

ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBA GENE; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTANT; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PILA GENE; PILT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PILA;

EID: 33747071718     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05298.x     Document Type: Article

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