Immediate and Heterogeneous Response of the LiaFSR Two-Component System of Bacillus subtilis to the Peptide Antibiotic Bacitracin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kesel, Sara ^a   Mader, Andreas ^a   Höfler, Carolin ^a   Mascher, Thorsten ^a   Leisner, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; PROTEIN LIAFSR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RESPONSE REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACITRACIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84872239404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053457     Document Type: Article

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