Vitreoscilla hemoglobin promoter is not responsive to nitrosative and oxidative stress in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 127-132

  Frey, Alexander D ^a,b   Koskenkorva, Taija ^a   Kallio, Pauli T ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Nitrosative stress; Oxidative stress; Vitreoscilla hemoglobin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FLAVOPROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NITROSATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTECTION; VITREOSCILLA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VITREOSCILLA;

EID: 0037632516     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00434-8     Document Type: Article

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