The SpoIIQ-SpoIIIAH complex of Clostridium difficile controls forespore engulfment and late stages of gene expression and spore morphogenesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 204-228

  Serrano, Mónica ^a   Crawshaw, Adam D ^b   Dembek, Marcin ^b,c   Monteiro, João M ^a   Pereira, Fátima C ^a,d   Pinho, Mariana Gomes ^a   Fairweather, Neil F ^c   Salgado, Paula S ^b   Henriques, Adriano O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LYTM PROTEIN; SPOIIIAH PROTEIN; SPOIIQ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPOIIIAH GENE; SPOIIQ GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84959020585     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13311     Document Type: Article

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