A novel mechanism for upregulation of the Escherichia coil K-12 hmp (flavohaemoglobin) gene by the 'NO releaser', S-nitrosoglutathione: Nitrosation of homocysteine and modulation of MetR binding to the glyA-hmp intergenic region

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1101-1112

  Membrillo Hernández, Jorge ^a,b   Coopamah, Malini D ^a   Channa, Asif ^c   Hughes, Martin N ^c   Poole, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN DERIVATIVE; HOMOCYSTEINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; S NITROSOGLUTATHIONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DIHYDROPTERIDINE REDUCTASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; HEMEPROTEINS; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROPRUSSIDE; NITROSO COMPOUNDS; S-NITROSOGLUTATHIONE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031844664     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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