The spore differentiation pathway in the enteric pathogen Clostridium difficile.

Endosporulation is an ancient bacterial developmental program that culminates with the differentiation of a highly resistant endospore. In the model organism Bacillus subtilis, gene expression in the forespore and in the mother cell, the two cells that participate in endospore development, is govern...

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Main Authors: Fátima C Pereira, Laure Saujet, Ana R Tomé, Mónica Serrano, Marc Monot, Evelyne Couture-Tosi, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete, Bruno Dupuy, Adriano O Henriques
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3789829?pdf=render