High stimulus unmasks positive feedback in an autoregulated bacterial signaling circuit

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 45, 2008, Pages 17457-17462

  Miyashiro, Tim ^a   Goulian, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autogenous control; PhoP PhoQ; Two component signal transduction

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PHOP PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN PHOQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 56249126377     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807278105     Document Type: Article

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