RefZ facilitates the switch from medial to polar division during spore formation in Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 4608-4618

  Wagner Herman, Jennifer K ^a,b   Bernard, Remi ^a   Dunne, Roisin ^a,d   Bisson Filho, Alexandre W ^c   Kumar, Krithika ^b   Nguyen, Trang ^b   Mulcahy, Lawrence ^a,e   Koullias, John ^a   Gueiros Filho, Frederico J ^c   Rudnera, David Z ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; REFZ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA BINDING MOTIF; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC SCREENING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84866335842     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00378-12     Document Type: Article

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