Genetic analysis of the Bacillus subtilis sigG promoter, which controls the sporulation-specific transcription factor σG

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2277-2287

  Evans, Louise ^a   Feucht, Andrea ^a   Errington, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BINDING SITE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 4344593961     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26914-0     Document Type: Article

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