The Protease Lon and the RNA-Binding Protein Hfq Reduce Silencing of the Escherichia coli bgl Operon by H-NS

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2708-2716

  Dole, Sudhanshu ^a,b   Klingen, Yvonne ^a   Nagarajavel, V ^a   Schnetz, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; ENDOPEPTIDASE LA; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; PROTEIN HFQ; PROTEINASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REDUCTION; TRANSPOSON;

ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEASE LA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 1942475805     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.9.2708-2716.2004     Document Type: Article

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