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The Bacillus subtilis germinant receptor GerA triggers premature germination in response to morphological defects during sporulation.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Sept 2017
Ramírez-Guadiana Fernando H, Meeske Alexander J, Wang Xindan, Rodrigues Christopher D A, Rudner David Z
Abstract excerpt
During sporulation in Bacillus subtilis, germinant receptors assemble in the inner membrane of the developing spore. In response to specific nutrients, these receptors trigger germination and outgrowth. In a transposon-sequencing screen, we serendipitously discovered that loss of function mutations in the gerA receptor partially suppress the phenotypes of > 25 sporulation mutants. Most of these mutants have...
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