ParB deficiency in Pseudomonas aeruginosa destabilizes the partner protein ParA and affects a variety of physiological parameters

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1080-1092

  Bartosik, A A ^a   Mierzejewska, J ^a   Thomas, C M ^b   Jagura Burdzy, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN PARA; PROTEIN PARB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHROMOSOME PARTITION PROTEINS, BACTERIAL; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE INACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WILD TYPE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MOVEMENT; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 65649111207     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.024661-0     Document Type: Article

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