How high G+C Gram-positive bacteria and in particular bifidobacteria cope with heat stress: Protein players and regulators

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 734-759

  Ventura, Marco ^a,b   Canchaya, Carlos ^b   Zhang, Ziding ^c   Bernini, Valentina ^a   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^b   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Actinobacteria; Bifidobacteria; Gene regulation; Stress response

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; CHAPERONIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 100; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN DNAK; PROTEINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT STRESS; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRESS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; REGULON;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOBACTERIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33746933405     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2006.00031.x     Document Type: Review

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