Defining the structure of the general stress regulon of Bacillus subtilis using targeted microarray analysis and random forest classification

Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 696-707

  Nannapaneni, Priyanka ^a   Hertwig, Falk ^a,d   Depke, Maren ^a   Hecker, Michael ^a   Mäder, Ulrike ^a   Völker, Uwe ^a   Steil, Leif ^a   van Hijum, Sacha A F T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BUTANOL; GLUCOSE; OXYGEN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR SIGB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; HEAT SHOCK; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; REGULON;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84857710573     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.055434-0     Document Type: Article

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