Circuitry linking the Csr and stringent response global regulatory systems

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1561-1580

  Edwards, Adrianne N ^a   Patterson Fortin, Laura M ^b   Vakulskas, Christopher A ^b   Mercante, Jeffrey W ^a   Potrykus, Katarzyna ^c   Vinella, Daniel ^c   Camacho, Martha I ^d   Fields, Joshua A ^e   Thompson, Stuart A ^e   Georgellis, Dimitris ^d   Cashel, Michael ^c   Babitzke, Paul ^f   Romeo, Tony ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HYDROXAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN CSRA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DKSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DKSA GENE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RELA GENE; SPOT GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79958838355     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07663.x     Document Type: Article

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