The transcriptional program underlying the physiology of clostridial sporulation

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Jones, Shawn W ^a,b,c   Paredes, Carlos J ^a,d   Tracy, Bryan ^a   Cheng, Nathan ^a,e   Sillers, Ryan ^a   Senger, Ryan S ^b,c   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^b,c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e Zitter Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; PROTEIN CAC1766; PROTEIN CAP0167; SIGMA FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULON; RNA BINDING; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL SPORE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 49049116154     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-7-r114     Document Type: Article

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