Bacterial lifestyle shapes stringent response activation

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 174-180

  Boutte, Cara C ^a   Crosson, Sean ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Niche; PpGpp; RelA; SpoT; Stress response; Stringent response

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' TRIPHOSPHATE; INITIATING NUCLEOTIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN RSH; PROTEIN SPOT; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL ALARMONE SYNTHETASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIVORE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; COPIOTHROPH; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; STRINGENT RESPONSE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 84875852284     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2013.01.002     Document Type: Review

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