Specialized osmotic stress response systems involve multiple sigb-like sigma factors in streptomyces coelicolor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 699-714

  Viollier, Patrick H ^a,c   Kelemen, Gabriella H ^b,d   Dale, Glenn E ^a,e   Nguyen, Kien T ^a,f   Buttner, Mark J ^b   Thompson, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e Morphochem AG Basel   (Switzerland)

^f CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SIGB; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; HEAT; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; OPERON; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037244432     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03302.x     Document Type: Article

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