Dynamics of a starvation-to-surfeit shift: A transcriptomic and modelling analysis of the bacterial response to zinc reveals transient behaviour of the Fur and SoxS regulators

Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 284-292

  Graham, Alison I ^a   Sanguinetti, Guido ^b   Bramall, Neil ^a   Mcleod, Cameron W ^a   Poole, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSR PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BAER PROTEIN; BASR PROTEIN; COPPER; CPXP PROTEIN; CPXR PROTEIN; CUSF PROTEIN; CUSR PROTEIN; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR; IRON; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; OXYR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RONACALERET; SOXS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YKGM PROTEIN; ZINC; ZINT PROTEIN; ZNTR PROTEIN; ZNUA PROTEIN; ZRAR PROTEIN; ZUR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CELL GROWTH; CELL LEVEL; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZINC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84855243112     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.053843-0     Document Type: Article

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