Regulated proteolysis in Gram-negative bacteria-how and when?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 839-848

  Gur, Eyal ^a   Biran, Dvora ^b   Ron, Eliora Z ^b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLPX; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEAT SHOCK; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEOLYSIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 81255127216     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2669     Document Type: Review

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