EspA, an orphan hybrid histidine protein kinase, regulates the timing of expression of key developmental proteins of Myxococcus xanthus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4416-4426

  Higgs, Penelope I ^a   Jagadeesan, Sakthimala ^a   Mann, Petra ^a   Zusman, David R ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI SECRETED PROTEIN A; PHOSPHORUS DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FRUA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MRPC;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOACCUMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRUITING BODY; GENE CONTROL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 46049086951     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00265-08     Document Type: Article

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