The SOS response affects thermoregulation of colicin K synthesis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-111

  Butala, Matej ^a   Podlesek, Zdravko ^a   Žgur Bertok, Darja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Colicin; SOS response; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COLICIN; COLICIN E1; COLICIN E7; COLICIN K; COLICIN N; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOMYCIN C;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA REPAIR; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RNA ISOLATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLICINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PLASMIDS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 42649106490     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01161.x     Document Type: Article

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