Molecular characterization of the acid-inducible asr gene of Escherichia coli and its role in acid stress response

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2475-2484

  Šeputiene, Vaida ^a   Motiejunas, Domantas ^a   Sužiedelis, Kȩstutis ^a   Tomenius, Henrik ^b   Normark, Staffan ^b   Melefors, Öjar ^b   Sužiedeliene, Edita ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID SHOCK PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACID SECRETION; ACID TOLERANCE; ACIDITY; ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASR GENE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PH MEASUREMENT; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHOCK; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037386473     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.8.2475-2484.2003     Document Type: Article

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