The two-component system ChrSA is crucial for haem tolerance and interferes with HrrSA in haemdependent gene regulation in corynebacterium glutamicum

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3020-3031

  Heyer, Antonia ^a   Gätgens, Cornelia ^a   Hentschel, Eva ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^b   Bott, Michael ^a   Frunzke, Julia ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN CHRA; PROTEIN CHRSA; PROTEIN HRRSA; PROTEIN HRTBA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHRSA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DELETION MUTANT; DNA MICROARRAY; EYFP GENE; FUNGAL GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HMUO GENE; HOMEOSTASIS; HRRA GENE; HRTBA GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84870344593     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.062638-0     Document Type: Article

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