Copper-responsive gene regulation in bacteria

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2451-2464

  Rademacher, Corinna ^a   Masepohl, Bernd ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPY PROTEIN; CSOR PROTEIN; CUER PROTEIN; CUSRS PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CROWN GALL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOMEOSTASIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; XANTHOMONAS AXONOPODIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COPPER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL;

ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84867133819     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.058487-0     Document Type: Review

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