A novel pathway of intercellular signalling in Bacillus subtilis involves a protein with similarity to a component of type III secretion channels

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 402-417

  Camp, Amy H ^a   Losick, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SPOIIIAA PROTEIN; SPOIIIAH PROTEIN; SPOIIIJ PROTEIN; SPOIIIQ PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; GENES, REPORTER; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 47249121296     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06289.x     Document Type: Article

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