C-factor: a cell-cell signaling protein required for fruiting body morphogenesis of M. xanthus.

doi:10.1016/0092-8674(90)90211-v

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C-factor: a cell-cell signaling protein required for fruiting body morphogenesis of M. xanthus.

Cell - 6 Apr 1990

Kim S K, Kaiser D

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During fruiting body development, the product of the csgA gene is necessary for cellular aggregation, for spore differentiation, and for gene expression that is initiated after 6 hr of starvation. From nascent wild-type fruiting bodies we have purified a polypeptide of 17 kd called C-factor, whic...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Bacterial Proteins
Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
Genotype
Kinetics
Molecular Sequence Data
Molecular Weight
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Myxococcales
Signal Transduction

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