Plant RelA/SpoT homolog confers salt tolerance in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-9

  Yamada, Akiyo ^a   Tsutsumi, Kouichi ^a   Tanimoto, Shizufumi ^b   Ozeki, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Guanosine tetraphosphate; RelA; Salt tolerance; SpoT; Suaeda japonica

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHENOPODIACEAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; JAPONICA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUAEDA; SUAEDA JAPONICA;

EID: 0037267572     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg001     Document Type: Article

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