Hfq-dependent, co-ordinate control of cyclic diguanylate synthesis and catabolism in the plague pathogen Yersinia pestis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 661-674

  Bellows, Lauren E ^a   Koestler, Benjamin J ^b   Karaba, Sara M ^a   Waters, Christopher M ^b   Lathem, Wyndham W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; CYCLIC DIGUANYLATE; DEOXYGUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HFQ PROTEIN; HMSP PROTEIN; HMST PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME STABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HMSP GENE; HMST GENE; MEMBRANE FORMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

3',5'-CYCLIC-GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLIC GMP; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84868123740     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12011     Document Type: Article

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