Transcriptional induction of the conserved alternative sigma factor RpoS in Escherichia coli is dependent on BarA, a probable two-component regulator

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 371-381

  Mukhopadhyay, Suman ^a,b   Audia, Jonathon P ^a   Roy, Rabindra N ^a   Schellhorn, Herb E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATALASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATALASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033942883     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01999.x     Document Type: Article

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