Alginate, inorganic polyphosphate, GTP and ppGpp synthesis co-regulated in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Implications for stationary phase survival and synthesis of RNA/DNA precursors

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 717-725

  Kim, Hong Yeoul ^a,b   Schlictman, D ^c   Shankar, Sandeep ^c   Xie, Zhidong ^c   Chakrabarty, A M ^c   Kornberg, A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL RNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; POLYPHOSPHATE; PYRUVATE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SUCCINYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ALGINATES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONIC ACID; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HEXURONIC ACIDS; NUCLEOSIDE-DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; PHOSPHATES; POLYPHOSPHATES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN KINASES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA PRECURSORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0031939726     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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