The extracytoplasmic function sigma factors: Role and regulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1059-1066

  Missiakas, Dominique ^a,c   Raina, Satish ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; CAROTENOID; COBALT; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NICKEL; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IRON TRANSPORT; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REGULON; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; SULPHOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; VIBRIONACEAE; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES EUROPHUS; ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM SP.; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCES COELLICOLOR; SULPHOLOBUS; SULPHOLOBUS ACIDOCAIDARIUS; VIBRIONACEAE; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0031745718     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00865.x     Document Type: Review

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