Identification of proteins likely to be involved in morphogenesis, cell division, and signal transduction in planctomycetes by comparative genomics

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 6419-6430

  Jogler, Christian ^a,b   Waldmann, Jost ^c   Huang, Xiaoluo ^d   Jogler, Mareike ^b   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^c   Mascher, Thorsten ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIVISION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANCTOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; SYNTENY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PLANCTOMYCETES;

EID: 84871043181     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01325-12     Document Type: Article

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