Acid stress response in Escherichia coli: Mechanism of regulation of gadA transcription by RcsB and GadE

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3546-3554

  Castanié Cornet, Marie Pierre ^a   Cam, Kaymeuang ^a,b   Bastiat, Bénédicte ^a,c   Cros, Adeline ^a   Bordes, Patricia ^a   Gutierrez, Claude ^a  

^a UPS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLYASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE A; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE E; PROTEIN RCSB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77954313305     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq097     Document Type: Article

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