New horizons for (p)ppGpp in bacterial and plant physiology

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-54

  Braeken, Kristien ^a   Moris, Martine ^a   Daniels, Ruth ^a   Vanderleyden, Jos ^a   Michiels, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE NUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL FUNCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; HOST; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; STARVATION; STRESS; SYMBIOSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; LIGASES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 30344476728     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2005.11.006     Document Type: Review

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