Stress induction of the Bacillus subtilis clpP gene encoding a homologue of the proteolytic component of the Clp protease and the involvement of ClpP and ClpX in stress tolerance

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 787-802

  Gerth, Ulf ^a   Krüger, Elke ^a   Derré, Isabelle ^b   Msadek, Tarek ^b   Hecker, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALCOHOL; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; PUROMYCIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT SHOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REPORTER GENE; STRESS; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031831529     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00840.x     Document Type: Article

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