The ObgE/CgtA GTPase influences the stringent response to amino acid starvation in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 253-266

  Persky, Nicole S ^a   Ferullo, Daniel J ^a   Cooper, Deani L ^a   Moore, Hayley R ^a   Lovett, Susan T ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CGTA PROTEIN; DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROXAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; NUCLEOTIDE; OBGE PROTEIN; PHOSPHORUS 32; SERINE HYDROXAMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA CONTENT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; FLOW CYTOMETRY; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RADIOACTIVITY; STARVATION; STRESS; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACIDS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SERINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 67650465604     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06767.x     Document Type: Article

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