A novel compartment, the 'subapical stem' of the aerial hyphae, is the location of a sigN-dependent, developmentally distinct transcription in Streptomyces coelicolor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 719-737

  Dalton, Kate A ^b   Thibessard, Annabelle ^a,b   Hunter, James I B ^b   Kelemen, Gabriella H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBON SOURCE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; NEPA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 34247500389     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05684.x     Document Type: Article

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