Up-regulation of yggG promotes the survival of Escherichia coli cells containing Era-1 mutant protein

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-15

  Huang, Yong ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Dong, Ke ^b   Zhang, XiaoNan ^a   Hou, LiChao ^c   Wang, Tao ^a   Chen, NanChun ^a   Chen, SuMin ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Era; Escherichia coli; Heat shock protein; Mutation; YggG

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN ERA 1; PROTEIN YGGG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC METALLOPROTEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPREGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; METALLOPROTEASES; MUTATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34548565904     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00860.x     Document Type: Article

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