Redox-sensitive transcriptional control by a thiol/disulphide switch in the global regulator, Spx

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 498-510

  Nakano, Shunji ^a,c   Erwin, Kyle N ^a   Ralle, Martina ^b   Zuber, Peter ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; PROTEIN SPX; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; THIOL; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISULFIDES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE (NADPH); TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 13144257719     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04395.x     Document Type: Article

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