Interplay of transcriptional and small RNA-dependent control mechanisms regulates chitosugar uptake in Escherichia coli and Salmonella

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 648-658

  Plumbridge, Jacqueline ^a,d   Bossi, Lionello ^a   Oberto, Jacques ^a   Wade, Joseph T ^b,c   Figueroa Bossi, Nara ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d FRE3630 CNRS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITOPORIN; CHITOSUGAR; MESSENGER RNA; PORIN; PROTEIN NAGC; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; CHITIN; NITROGEN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHITOPORIN GENE; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SALMONELLA; STOICHIOMETRY; SUGAR TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA;

CARBON; CHITIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PORINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SALMONELLA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899952321     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12573     Document Type: Article

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