The σ(E)-mediated response to extracytoplasmic stress in Escherichia coli is transduced by RseA and RseB, two negative regulators of σ(E)

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 373-385

  De Las Peñas, Alejandro ^a,c   Connolly, Lynn ^b   Gross, Carol A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SIGMA E FACTOR; SIGMA-E FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TYRO3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030611303     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3611718.x     Document Type: Article

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