Developmental biology of Streptomyces from the perspective of 100 actinobacterial genome sequences

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 345-379

  Chandra, Govind ^a   Chater, Keith F ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell division; Mycelial growth; Mycothiol; Nitric oxide; Polar growth; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PROTEIN; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHIA PROTEIN; WHIB PROTEIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCANOBACTERIUM HAEMOLYTICUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SEPARATION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CLADISTICS; CORIOBACTERIALES; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EGGERTHELLA LENTA; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MICROMONOSPORA; MYCELIAL GROWTH; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REGULATOR GENE; RENIBACTERIUM SALMONINARUM; REVIEW; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; THERMOBIFIDA FUSCA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

CELL DIVISION; MYCELIAL GROWTH; MYCOTHIOL; NITRIC OXIDE; POLAR GROWTH; SPORULATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 84899937003     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12047     Document Type: Review

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