Loss of the controlled localization of growth stage-specific cell-wall synthesis pleiotropically affects developmental gene expression in an ssgA mutant of Streptomyces coelicolor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1244-1259

  Noens, Elke E ^a,b   Mersinias, Vassilis ^c   Willemse, Joost ^a   Traag, Bjørn A ^a   Laing, Emma ^c   Chater, Keith F ^d   Smith, Colin P ^c   Koerten, Henk K ^b   Van Wezel, Gilles P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FTSZ PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SSGA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATOR GENE; SPOROGENESIS; SSGR GENE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPHAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); SALPIDA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 34249796696     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05732.x     Document Type: Article

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