Novel mutations that alter the regulation of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Evidence that phosphorylation of regulatory protein SpoOA controls the initiation of sporulation.

Abstract excerpt

Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is a complex developmental process that occurs in response to nutrient deprivation. To identify components of the mechanism that allows cells to monitor their nutritional status and to understand how this sensory information is transduced into a signal to activate...

Topics

• Alleles
• Amino Acid Sequence
• Bacillus subtilis
• Bacterial Proteins
• Base Sequence
• Chromosome Mapping
• Lac Operon
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Phosphorylation
• Protein Conformation