Blocking chromosome translocation during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis can result in prespore-specific activation of σG that is independent of σE and of engulfment

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 7267-7273

  Chary, Vasant K ^a   Xenopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Piggot, Patrick J ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Microbiology and Immunology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BINDING COMPETITION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOIIIE GENE; SPOIIIG GENE; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 33749631899     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00744-06     Document Type: Article

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