Bacillus subtilis aconitase is required for efficient late-sporulation gene expression

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 6396-6405

  Serio, Alisa W ^b   Pechter, Kieran B ^c   Sonenshein, Abraham L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GERE PROTEIN; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATALYSIS; CITB GENE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33749003110     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00249-06     Document Type: Article

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