A small heat-shock protein (Hsp20) regulated by RpoS is essential for cyst desiccation resistance in Azotobacter vinelandii

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 160, Issue PART 3, 2014, Pages 479-487

  Cocotl Yañez, Miguel ^a   Moreno, Soledad ^a   Encarnación, Sergio ^b   López Pliego, Liliana ^c   Castañeda, Miguel ^c   Espín, Guadalupe ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^c BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 20; HISTIDINE; KANAMYCIN; PROTEOME; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; DESICCATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; LIPOGENESIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DESICCATION; GENE SILENCING; HSP20 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84896826341     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.073353-0     Document Type: Article

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