Copper stress affects iron homeostasis by destabilizing iron-sulfur cluster formation in Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2512-2524

  Chillappagari, Shashi ^a   Seubert, Andreas ^a   Trip, Hein ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^b   Marahiel, Mohamed A ^a   Miethke, Marcus ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; CYSTEINE; IRON; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; SULFUR;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOGENESIS; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRESS; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFUSION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULON; STRESS; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COPPER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN STABILITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 77952056332     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00058-10     Document Type: Article

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