A conserved two-component signal transduction system controls the response to phosphate starvation in Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5258-5269

  Alvarez Martin, Pablo ^a,c   Fernández, Matilde ^a,d   O'Connell Motherway, Mary ^a,b   O'Connell, Kerry Joan ^a,b   Sauvageot, Nicolas ^a,e   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a,b   MacSharry, John ^a   Zomer, Aldert ^a,f   van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^d Bio Iliberis R and D   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGULATIONS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INORGANIC PHOSPHATES; INSERTION MUTANTS; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; PARENT STRAIN; PHOSPHATE STARVATION; PROMOTER REGION; RECOGNITION SEQUENCE; REGULATORY PROTEIN; STARVATION CONDITIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL MODULATION; TWO-COMPONENT REGULATORY SYSTEMS; TWO-COMPONENT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION SYSTEMS;

BIOINFORMATICS; GENES;

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOP PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER;

BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; DATABASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PHOSPHATE (INORGANIC); PROTEIN; STARVATION;

ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84866147776     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00804-12     Document Type: Article

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