Role of Sphingomonas sp. strain Fr1 PhyR-NepR-σ EcfG cascade in general stress response and identification of a negative regulator of PhyR

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 6629-6638

  Kaczmarczyk, Andreas ^a   Campagne, Sébastien ^a   Danza, Francesco ^a   Metzger, Lisa C ^a   Vorholt, Julia A ^a   Francez Charlot, Anne ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SIGMA FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIPHYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHINGOMONAS; STRESS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPHINGOMONAS SP.;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGMA FACTOR; SPHINGOMONAS;

EID: 84855365580     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06006-11     Document Type: Article

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