Phosphate starvation relayed by PhoB activates the expression of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa σvreI ECF factor and its target genes

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART7, 2013, Pages 1315-1327

  Faure, Laura M ^a   Llamas, María A ^b   Bastiaansen, Karlijn C ^b,c   Bentzmann, Sophie de ^a   Bigot, Sarah ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PHOB PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; OPERON; PHOSPHATES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84879824359     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.067645-0     Document Type: Article

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