A global investigation of the Bacillus subtilis iron-sparing response identifies major changes in metabolism

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2594-2605

  Smaldone, Gregory T ^a   Revelles, Olga ^b   Gaballa, Ahmed ^a   Sauer, Uwe ^b   Antelmann, Haike ^c   Helmann, John D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; CARBON; DICARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; FBPAB PROTEIN; FBPC PROTEIN; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR; FSRA PROTEIN; GLTAB PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; IRON; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NITROGEN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBON METABOLISM; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; IRON TRANSPORT; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULON;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84861412664     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05990-11     Document Type: Article

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