Escherichia coli response to hydrogen peroxide: A role for DNA supercoiling, Topoisomerase I and Fis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1413-1420

  Weinstein Fischer, Dalit ^a   Elgrably Weiss, Maya ^a   Altuvia, Shoshy ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA REPAIR; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034065133     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01805.x     Document Type: Article

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