Bacterial stress responses: What doesn't kill them can make them stronger

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 0018-0020

  Boor, Kathryn J ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA E FACTOR; SIGMA-E FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SHORT SURVEY; STRESS; THREAT; ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; HUMANS; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 31144471322     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040023     Document Type: Short Survey

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