Transcriptional regulation of the operon encoding stress-responsive ECF sigma factor SigH and its anti-sigma factor RshA, and control of its regulatory network in Corynebacterium glutamicum

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Busche, Tobias ^a   Šilar, Radoslav ^b   Pičmanová, Martina ^b   Pátek, Miroslav ^b   Kalinowski, Jörn ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anti sigma factor; Corynebacterium glutamicum; ECF sigma factor; Microarray analysis; Promoter

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RSHA GENE; SIGH GENE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84865594326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-445     Document Type: Article

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