Synthetic tolerance: Three noncoding small RNAs, DsrA, ArcZ and RprA, acting supra-additively against acid stress

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 8726-8737

  Gaida, Stefan M ^a   Al Hinai, Mohab A ^a,b   Indurthi, Dinesh C ^a   Nicolaou, Sergios A ^a   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA ARCZ; RNA DSRA; RNA RPRA; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RPOS GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REGULON; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 84885943611     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt651     Document Type: Article

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