The whcA gene plays a negative role in oxidative stress response of Corynebacterium glutamicum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-38

  Choi, Woon Woo ^a   Park, Soo Dong ^a,c   Lee, Seok Myung ^a   Kim, Hyung Bai ^a   Kim, Younhee ^b   Lee, Heung Shick ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Semyung University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium glutamicum; sigH; Stress; whcA

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; DIAMIDE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MENADIONE; PROTEIN WHCA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL GROWTH; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SIGMA FACTOR; THIOREDOXIN-DISULFIDE REDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 57449092525     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01398.x     Document Type: Article

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