Article
Early spo gene expression in Bacillus subtilis: the role of interrelated signal transduction systems.
Biochimie - 1 Jan 2000
Smith I, Dubnau E, Predich M, Bai U, Rudner R
Abstract excerpt
The early spo genes are subject to a number of different control mechanisms. We found that at least one histidine kinase, SpoIIJ, is important for the expression of early spo genes but that two others, ComP and DegS, also affect sporulation, especially when SpoIIJ is absent. This indicates the existence of a signal transduction network which may gather information from several sources to feed into the sporulation...
Topics
- Bacillus subtilis
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Western
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Histidine Kinase
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- Protein Kinases