GerE-independent expression of cotH leads to CotC accumulation in the mother cell compartment during Bacillus subtilis sporulation

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3441-3449

  Baccigalupi, Loredana ^a   Castaldo, Gaetano ^a,c   Cangiano, Giuseppina ^a   Isticato, Rachele ^a   Marasco, Rosangela ^b   De Felice, Maurilio ^a   Ricca, Ezio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPOROGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 6444242391     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27356-0     Document Type: Article

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