Insertional mutagenesis reveals genes involved in Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 growth at low temperature

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-183

  Broussolle, Véronique ^a,b   Pandiani, Franck ^a,b   Haddad, Nabila ^a,b   Michaud, Caroline ^a,b   Carlin, Frédéric ^a,b   Nguyen The, Christophe ^a,b   Brillard, Julien ^a,b  

^a UMR A 408 INRA University of Avignon   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Low temperature; RNA helicase; Transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RNA HELICASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS ATCC 14579; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77951140161     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01953.x     Document Type: Article

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