Regulation of prokaryotic gene expression by eukaryotic-like enzymes

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 125-131

  Burnside, Kellie ^a   Rajagopal, Lakshmi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EUKARYOTE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84861817863     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2011.12.006     Document Type: Review

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