Sporulation regulatory protein GerE from Bacillus subtilis binds to and can activate or repress transcription from promoters for mother-cell-specific genes.

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Published in J Mol Biol on August 20, 1992

Authors

L Zheng1, R Halberg, S Roels, H Ichikawa, L Kroos, R Losick

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1: Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

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