Expression and assembly of a functional type IV secretion system elicit extracytoplasmic and cytoplasmic stress responses in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 6611-6621

  Zahrl, Doris ^a   Wagner, Maria ^a   Bischof, Karin ^a   Koraimann, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN; PROTEIN CPXAR; PROTEIN CPXR; SIGMA 32 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROESL GENE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRESS; T4S GENE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHAPERONINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PILI, SEX; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN KINASES; REGULON; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

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

EID: 33748804181     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00632-06     Document Type: Article

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