General Stress Response of a Model Bacterium

Plant Stress Biology: From Genomics to Systems Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-16

  Aertsen, Abram ^a,b   De Spiegeleer, Philipp ^a   Van Melderen, Laurence ^b   Michiels, Chris W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; General stress response; Model bacterium; Regulatory network; RNA polymerase; RpoS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885556004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527628964.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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