Growing bacillus subtilis tendrils sense and avoid each other: Research letter

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-19

  James, Barry L ^a   Kret, Jennifer ^a   Patrick, Joyce E ^b   Kearns, Daniel B ^b   Fall, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; GspA; Intercellular signaling; Motility; Surfactin; Tendrils

Indexed keywords

BIOSURFACTANT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SURFACTIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GSPA GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LIPOPEPTIDES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 68149110237     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01665.x     Document Type: Article

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