The response to stationary-phase stress conditions in Escherichia coli: Role and regulation of the glutamic acid decarboxylase system

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1198-1211

  De Biase, Daniela ^a   Tramonti, Angela ^a   Bossa, Francesco ^a   Visca, Paolo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ACIDIFICATION; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033037702     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01430.x     Document Type: Article

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