The Prc and RseP proteases control bacterial cell-surface signalling activity

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2433-2443

  Bastiaansen, Karlijn C ^a,b   Ibañez, Aurelia ^a   Ramos, Juan L ^a   Bitter, Wilbert ^b   Llamas, María A ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

AEROBACTIN; HYDROXAMIC ACID; IRON; PROTEINASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; IRON; PERIPLASM; PROTEOLYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84905381153     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12371     Document Type: Article

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