The Spore Differentiation Pathway in the Enteric Pathogen Clostridium difficile

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Pereira, Fátima C ^a   Saujet, Laure ^b,c   Tomé, Ana R ^a,d   Serrano, Mónica ^a   Monot, Marc ^c   Couture Tosi, Evelyne ^c   Martin Verstraete, Isabelle ^b,c   Dupuy, Bruno ^c   Henriques, Adriano O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; SIG GENE; SIGE GENE; SIGF GENE; SIGG GENE; SIGK GENE; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MUTATION; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84887306016     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003782     Document Type: Article

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