The GroE chaperonin machine is a major modulator of the CIRCE heat shock regulon of Bacillus subtilis

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 4579-4590

  Mogk, Axel ^a   Homuth, Georg ^a   Scholz, Christian ^a   Kim, Lana ^a   Schmid, Franz X ^a   Schumann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CIRCE element; DnaK chaperone; GroE chaperonin; HrcA repressor

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN; DNA FRAGMENT; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; UREA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HEAT SHOCK; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GROEL PROTEIN; GROES PROTEIN; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP40 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTATION; OPERON; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030849142     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.15.4579     Document Type: Article

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