The universal stress protein A of Escherichia coli is required for resistance to DNA damaging agents and is regulated by a RecA/FtsK-dependent regulatory pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1494-1503

  Diez, Alfredo ^a   Gustavsson, Niklas ^a   Nyström, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MITOMYCIN C; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DRUG RESISTANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LIGASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOMYCIN; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; REC A RECOMBINASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

EID: 0033939643     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01979.x     Document Type: Article

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