A matter of life and death: Cell wall homeostasis and the WalKR (YycGF) essential signal transduction pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1307-1322

  Dubrac, Sarah ^a   Bisicchia, Paola ^b   Devine, Kevin M ^b   Msadek, Tarek ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMOXICILLIN; BACITRACIN; BETA LACTAM; CEFALEXIN; CEFOTAXIME; DAPTOMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; RISTOCETIN; TRICLOSAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; WAIK PROTEIN; WAIR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL METABOLISM; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULON; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOMEOSTASIS; OPERON; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN KINASES; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES;

EID: 56749173808     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06483.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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