Functional genomics of pH homeostasis in Corynebacterium glutamicum revealed novel links between pH response, oxidative stress, iron homeostasis and methionine synthesis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Follmann, Martin ^a   Ochrombel, Ines ^a   Krämer, Reinhard ^a   Trötschel, Christian ^b   Poetsch, Ansgar ^b   Rückert, Christian ^c   Hüser, Andrea ^c   Persicke, Marcus ^c   Seiferling, Dominic ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^c   Marin, Kay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL DNA; CYSTEINE; CYTOSINE; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; PROTEIN MCBR; PROTEOME; REGULATOR PROTEIN; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL RNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IRON METABOLISM; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; PH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; METABOLOME; METHIONINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEOME; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 74549157678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-621     Document Type: Article

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