The sigma factors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Regulation of the regulators

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 605-626

  Sachdeva, Preeti ^a   Misra, Richa ^a   Tyagi, Anil K ^b   Singh, Yogendra ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium; Post translational regulation; Sigma factor; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; ISONIAZID; MESSENGER RNA; METRONIDAZOLE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; SIGMA FACTOR; STREPTOMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; VANCOMYCIN;

ADAPTATION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; HEAT SHOCK; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOGNITION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STARVATION; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 75149113154     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07479.x     Document Type: Review

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