Genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing analysis shows that WhiB is a transcription factor that cocontrols its regulon with WhiA to initiate developmental cell division in Streptomyces

mBio

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Bush, Matthew J ^a   Chandra, Govind ^a   Bibb, Maureen J ^a   Findlay, Kim C ^a   Buttner, Mark J ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHIA PROTEIN; WHIB PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; WHIB PROTEIN, STREPTOMYCES;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FTSK GENE; FTSW GENE; FTSZ GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES VENEZUELAE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; STREPTOMYCES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; REGULON; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84971260331     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00523-16     Document Type: Article

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