Stress response regulators identified through genome-wide transcriptome analysis of the (p)ppGpp-dependent response in Rhizobium etli

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Vercruysse, Maarten ^a   Fauvart, Maarten ^a   Jans, Ann ^a   Beullens, Serge ^a   Braeken, Kristien ^a   Cloots, Lore ^a   Engelen, Kristof ^a   Marchal, Kathleen ^a   Michiels, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' TRIPHOSPHATE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR ECFG2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CH00371; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HEAT STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; REGULON; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 79951557166     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-2-r17     Document Type: Article

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