Maintaining a healthy SPANC balance through regulatory and mutational adaptation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Ferenci, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PORIN; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PORINS; SIGMA FACTOR; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA;

EID: 21244473267     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04649.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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