Evidence that metabolism and chromosome copy number control mutually exclusive cell fates in Bacillus subtilis

EMBO Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1402-1413

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

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Biofilm; chromosome copy number; metabolic control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; BIOFILM; CELL FATE; CELL METABOLISM; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 79953775321     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.36     Document Type: Article

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