Haemophore-mediated signalling in Serratia marcescens: A new mode of regulation for an extra cytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factor involved in haem acquisition

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1267-1277

  Biville, Francis ^a   Cwerman, Hélène ^a   Létoffé, Sylvie ^a   Rossi, Maria Silvia ^a   Drouet, Valérie ^a   Ghigo, J M ^a   Wandersman, Cécile ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; EXBB PROTEIN; HEME; PROTEIN EXBD; PROTEIN HASI; PROTEIN HASR; PROTEIN HASS; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; PROTEIN TONB; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SWITCHING; HEMOPHORE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTOR BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIDEROPHORES; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 4344690894     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04207.x     Document Type: Article

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