Small proteins link coat and cortex assembly during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 682-696

  Ebmeier, Sarah E ^a,c   Tan, Irene S ^a,b   Clapham, Katie Rose ^a,d   Ramamurthi, Kumaran S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; COAT PROTEIN; PROTEIN CMPA; PROTEIN CORTEX; PROTEIN SPOIIID; PROTEIN SPOVM; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84860593197     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08052.x     Document Type: Article

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