Signal sensory systems that impact σ54-dependent transcription

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-440

  Shingler, Victoria ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AAA+ family; Bacterial enhancer binding proteins; Bacterial transcription; DksA; IHF; PpGpp

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBON; CYCLIC GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GAF PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; HOLOENZYME; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN NTRC; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN NTRC1; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN NTRC4; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN DKSA; PROTEIN DMPR; PROTEIN DNAK; PSPA PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL 4 REDUCTASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REVIEW; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79953328955     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00255.x     Document Type: Review

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