Extra cytoplasmic function σ factor activation

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-188

  Ho, Theresa D ^a   Ellermeier, Craig D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84861792068     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2012.01.001     Document Type: Review

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