The stringent response and cell cycle arrest in Escherichia coli

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Ferullo, Daniel J ^a   Lovett, Susan T ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARISOPRODOL; CEFALEXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROXAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIFAMPICIN; DAM METHYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ORIC CHROMOSOMAL REPLICATION ORIGIN; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SEQA PROTEIN, E COLI; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE SPECIFIC); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; WILD TYPE; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

EID: 58149142958     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000300     Document Type: Article

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