A duo of potassium-responsive histidine kinases govern the multicellular destiny of Bacillus subtilis

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Grau, Roberto R ^a   De Oña, Paula ^a   Kunert, Maritta ^c   Leñini, Cecilia ^a   Gallegos Monterrosa, Ramses ^b   Mhatre, Eisha ^b   Vileta, Darío ^a   Donato, Verónica ^a   Hölscher, Theresa ^b   Boland, Wilhelm ^c   Kuipers, Oscar P ^d   Kovács, Ákos T ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; FATTY ACID; HISTIDINE KINASE KINB; HISTIDINE KINASE KINC; HYDROPHOBIN; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SURFACTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPO0A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MOTILITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOSOL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HISTIDINE KINASE; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84940854090     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00581-15     Document Type: Article

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