Two intercellular signals required for fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus act sequentially but non-hierarchically

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-81

  Konovalova, Anna ^a   Wegener Feldbrügge, Sigrun ^a,b   Søgaard Andersen, Lotte ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Biochemistry   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASGA PROTEIN; ASGB PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; POPC PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASGA GENE; ASGB GENE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUITING BODY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 84867072305     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08173.x     Document Type: Article

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