Different responses to Spo0A-mediated suppression of the related Bacillus subtilis phages Nf and φ29

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1137-1149

  Castilla Llorente, Virginia ^a   Salas, Margarita ^a   Meijer, Wilfried J J ^a  

^a CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SPO0A PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS PHAGE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS LATENCY;

BACILLUS PHAGES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, VIRAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLAQUE ASSAY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS LATENCY;

BACILLUS PHAGE NF; BACILLUS PHAGE PHI29; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 65349084324     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01845.x     Document Type: Article

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