Spatial regulation of histidine kinases governing biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis.

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Published in J Bacteriol on November 19, 2010

Authors

Anna L McLoon1, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal, Shmuel M Rubinstein, Roberto Kolter, Richard Losick

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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