MstX and a Putative Potassium Channel Facilitate Biofilm Formation in Bacillus subtilis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lundberg, Matthew E ^a,b   Becker, Eric C ^b   Choe, Senyon ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINC PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SINR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MSTX GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YUGO GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; OPERON; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84878511178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060993     Document Type: Article

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