The program of gene transcription for a single differentiating cell type during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Eichenberger, Patrick ^a   Fujita, Masaya ^a   Jensen, Shane T ^b   Conlon, Erin M ^b,d   Rudner, David Z ^a,e   Wang, Stephanie T ^a   Ferguson, Caitlin ^a   Haga, Koki ^c   Sato, Tsutomu ^c   Liu, Jun S ^b   Losick, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; SPORE SPECIFIC PROTEINS, BACILLUS; SPORE-SPECIFIC PROTEINS, BACILLUS;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANIZATION; REGULON; SPOROGENESIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 8844240734     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020328     Document Type: Article

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