H-NS is a part of a thermally controlled mechanism for bacterial gene regulation

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 391, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 203-213

  Ono, Shusuke ^a   Goldberg, Martin D ^b,c   Olsson, Tjelvar ^a   Esposito, Diego ^a   Hinton, Jay C D ^b   Ladbury, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial chromatin; Conformational change; DNA microarray; Histone like nucleoid structuring protein (H NS); Oligomerization; Temperature regulation

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; DNA; GENES; OLIGOMERS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

BACTERIAL CHROMATIN; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES; DNA MICROARRAYS; HISTONE-LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN (H-NS); OLIGOMERIZATION; TEMPERATURE REGULATION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

DNA; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEROTYPE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 27444441689     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20050453     Document Type: Article

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