How mathematical modelling elucidates signalling in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1083-1095

  Liebal, Ulf W ^a   Millat, Thomas ^a   De Jong, Imke G ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^b   Völker, Uwe ^c   Wolkenhauer, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 77956139498     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07283.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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