Transcription Elongation Factor GreA Has Functional Chaperone Activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Li, Kun ^a,c,d   Jiang, Tianyi ^c   Yu, Bo ^a   Wang, Limin ^a   Gao, Chao ^c   Ma, Cuiqing ^c   Xu, Ping ^b,c   Ma, Yanhe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR GREA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL PROTECTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREA GENE; GREB GENE; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HOST CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN QUALITY; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN UNFOLDING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84871192686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047521     Document Type: Article

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