Fluctuations in spo0A transcription control rare developmental transitions in bacillus subtilis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Mirouze, Nicolas ^a   Prepiak, Peter ^a   Dubnau, David ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN CODY; PROTEIN SPOOA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GUANOSINE 3',5' POLYPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASES; GUANOSINE 3',5'-POLYPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASES; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIGASE; SPO0A PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL COUNT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPOOA GENE; SPOROGENESIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; REPORTER GENE; RNA GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, RRNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; LIGASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955590413     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002048     Document Type: Article

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