Systematic Production of Inactivating and Non-Inactivating Suppressor Mutations at the relA Locus That Compensate the Detrimental Effects of Complete spoT Loss and Affect Glycogen Content in Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Montero, Manuel ^a   Rahimpour, Mehdi ^a   Viale, Alejandro M ^a,b   Almagro, Goizeder ^a   Eydallin, Gustavo ^c   Sevilla, Ángel ^c   Cánovas, Manuel ^c   Bernal, Cristina ^c   Lozano, Ana Belén ^c   Muñoz, Francisco Jose ^a   Baroja Fernández, Edurne ^a   Bahaji, Abdellatif ^a   Mori, Hirotada ^d   Codoñer, Francisco M ^e   Pozueta Romero, Javier ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e Lifesequencing SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; GUANOSINE 3',5'-POLYPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASES; GUANOSINE-3',5'-BIS(DIPHOSPHATE) 3'-PYROPHOSPHATASE; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; LIGASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GLYCOGEN ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IN VIVO STUDY; INACTIVATING SUPPRESSOR MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NON INACTIVATING SUPPRESSOR MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; RELA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAINING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CLONE; DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENOTYPE; GLYCOGEN; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84906972012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106938     Document Type: Article

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