Peptidoglycan metabolism is controlled by the WalRK (YycFG) and PhoPR two-component systems in phosphate-limited Bacillus subtilis cells

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 972-989

  Bisicchia, Paola ^a   Lioliou, Efthimia ^a,b   Noone, David ^a   Salzberg, Letal I ^a   Botella, Eric ^a   Hübner, Sebastian ^a   Devine, Kevin M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHOPR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULON; WALRK GENE; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; REGULON;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 76449099531     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.07036.x     Document Type: Article

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