The availability of purine nucleotides regulates natural competence by controlling translation of the competence activator Sxy

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1106-1119

  Sinha, Sunita ^a   Mell, Joshua ^a   Redfield, Rosemary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CAMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SXY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS PNEUMONIAE; ACTINOBACILLUS SUIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE REGULATION; BINDING COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; NUCLEOTIDE DEPLETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SXY GENE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA TRANSFORMATION COMPETENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PURINE NUCLEOTIDES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ACTINOBACILLUS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 84879031018     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12245     Document Type: Article

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