Article
A forespore checkpoint for mother cell gene expression during development in B. subtilis.
Cell - 27 Jul 1990
Cutting S, Oke V, Driks A, Losick R, Lu S, Kroos L
Abstract excerpt
Gene expression in the mother cell compartment of sporulating cells of B. subtilis is partly governed by the mother cell RNA polymerase sigma factor sigma K. Paradoxically, sigma K-directed gene expression also depends on sigma G, the product of the forespore compartment regulatory gene spoIIIG, and on other forespore regulatory proteins. We now identify mutations in the genes bofA and bofB that relieve the...
Topics
- Bacillus subtilis
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Phenotype
- Sigma Factor
- Spores, Bacterial
- Transduction, Genetic