Cascade of sigma factors in streptomycetes: Identification of a new extracytoplasmic function sigma factor σj that is under the control of the stress-response sigma factor σh in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 435-446

  Mazurakova, Vladislava ^a   Sevcikova, Beatrica ^a   Rezuchova, Bronislava ^a   Kormanec, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Gene disruption; Recombinant DNA; RNA polymerase; Sigma factor; Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2); Stress response

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE S1; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR SIGMA H; SIGMA FACTOR SIGMA J; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCETACEAE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGMA FACTOR; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 33751410386     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-006-0158-9     Document Type: Article

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