Bola Affects Cell Growth, and Binds to the Promoters of Penicillin-Binding Proteins 5 and 6 and Regulates Their Expression

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 243-251

  Guinote, Ines Batista ^a   Matos, Rute Gonçalves ^a   Freire, Patrick ^a,b   Arraiano, Cecília Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b Laboratorio Nacional de Investigacao Veterinaria   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bola; DD carboxypeptidase; PBP; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 5; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 6; PROTEIN BOLA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79953283585     PISSN: 10177825     EISSN: 17388872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4014/jmb.1009.09034     Document Type: Article

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