Response of the NAD(P)H-oxidising flavohaemoglobin (Hmp) to prolonged oxidative stress and implications for its physiological role in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 219-223

  Anjum, Muna F ^a   Ioannidis, Nicolaos ^a,b   Poole, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Flavohaemoglobin; hmp; Oxidative stress; Paraquat

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIHYDROPTERIDINE REDUCTASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HEMOPROTEIN; HMP PROTEIN, E COLI; HYBRID PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PARAQUAT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIHYDROPTERIDINE REDUCTASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMEPROTEINS; LAC OPERON; NAD; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; NADP; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARAQUAT; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0032529916     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb13893.x     Document Type: Article

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