A CtrA homolog affects swarming motility and encystment in Rhodospirillum centenum

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 451-459

  Bird, Terry H ^a   MacKrell, Allison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Encystment; Prokaryotic development; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN CTRA; PROTEIN CTRAD51E; PROTEIN CYD2; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL SWARMING MOTILITY; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTRA GENE; CYD2 GENE; CYST FORMATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHODOSPIRILLUM CENTENUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHODOSPIRILLUM CENTENUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOSPIRILLUM CENTENUM;

EID: 79958190231     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: 1432072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-011-0676-y     Document Type: Article

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