A moderate toxin, grat, modulates growth rate and stress tolerance of pseudomonas putida

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 157-169

  Tamman, Hedvig ^a   Ainelo, Andres ^a   Ainsaar, Kadi ^a   Hõrak, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIDOTE; ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; KANAMYCIN; PARAQUAT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS DENITRIFICANS FLUORESCENS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; START CODON; STRESS; TEMPERATURE; TOXIN ANTITOXIN SYSTEM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DRUG TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84890282338     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00851-13     Document Type: Article

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