Reactive oxygen species-inducible ecf σ factors of bradyrhizobium japonicum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Masloboeva, Nadezda ^a   Reutimann, Luzia ^a   Stiefel, Philipp ^a   Follador, Rainer ^a   Leimer, Nadja ^a   Hennecke, Hauke ^a   Mesa, Socorro ^a,b   Fischer, Hans Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; EXTRACYTOPLASMIC FUNCTION SIGMA FACTOR; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGEN; PROTEIN ECFF; PROTEIN ECFQ; PROTEIN OSRA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGMA FACTOR;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECFF GENE; ECFQ GENE; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OSRA GENE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 84865093175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043421     Document Type: Article

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