Co-ordinated regulation of the extracytoplasmic stress factor, sigmaE, with other Escherichia coli sigma factors by (p)ppGpp and DksA may be achieved by specific regulation of individual holoenzymes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 479-493

  Gopalkrishnan, Saumya ^a,b   Nicoloff, Herve ^a,c   Ades, Sarah E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; DKSA PROTEIN; HOLOENZYME; PHOSPHATE; PPGPP ALARMONE; PPPGPP ALARMONE; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DKSA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' TRIPHOSPHATE; SPORULATION-SPECIFIC SIGMA FACTORS;

ARTICLE; CELL STRESS; CELL SURVIVAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SURVIVAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; HOLOENZYMES; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84905052362     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12674     Document Type: Article

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