There's NO stopping NsrR, a global regulator of the bacterial NO stress response

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 149-156

  Tucker, Nicholas P ^a   Le Brun, Nick E ^b   Dixon, Ray ^c   Hutchings, Matthew I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NSRR PROTEIN; RRF2 PROTEIN; S NITROSOGLUTATHIONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DENITRIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NITROSYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REDUCTION KINETICS; REGULON; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIC OXIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77950862348     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.12.009     Document Type: Review

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