SlrA/SinR/SlrR inhibits motility gene expression upstream of a hypersensitive and hysteretic switch at the level of σ D in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1210-1228

  Cozy, Loralyn M ^a   Phillips, Andrew M ^a   Calvo, Rebecca A ^a   Bate, Ashley R ^b   Hsueh, Yi Huang ^a   Bonneau, Richard ^b   Eichenberger, Patrick ^b   Kearns, Daniel B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLIN GENE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; SIGD GENE; SINR GENE; SLRA GENE; SLRR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84858293761     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08003.x     Document Type: Article

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