A DNA-binding protein defines the precise region of chromosome capture during Bacillus sporulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 111-122

  Miller, Allyssa K ^a   Brown, Emily E ^a   Mercado, Benjamin T ^a   Herman, Jennifer K ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; ORIC PROTEIN; REFZ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPOROGENESIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84955197384     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13217     Document Type: Article

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