Toxins Hha and CspD and small RNA regulator Hfq are involved in persister cell formation through MqsR in Escherichia coli

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 391, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 209-213

  Kim, Younghoon ^a   Wood, Thomas K ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

CspD; Hfq; Hha; MqsR; Persister formation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CHAPERONE; CSPD PROTEIN; HHA PROTEIN; HOKA; MQSR PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; RNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 72949116993     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.11.033     Document Type: Article

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