Nitrogen stress response and stringent response are coupled in Escherichia coli

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Brown, Daniel R ^a   Barton, Geraint ^a   Pan, Zhensheng ^a   Buck, Martin ^a   Wigneshweraraj, Sivaramesh ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMMONIA; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; NITROGEN; RIFAMPICIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLNG PROTEIN, E COLI; GUANOSINE 3',5'-POLYPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASES; LIGASE; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL ORGANELLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NUTRITION; PHOSPHATE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STARVATION; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WILD TYPE; DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LIGASES; NITROGEN; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84903188814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5115     Document Type: Article

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