Paralogous antirepressors acting on the master regulator for biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 876-887

  Chai, Yunrong ^a   Kolter, Roberto ^b   Losick, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN SINL; PROTEIN SINR; PROTEIN SLRA; PROTEIN SLRR; PROTEIN YWCC; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTANT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSOR GENE; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 70449570736     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06900.x     Document Type: Article

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