Transcriptional response of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 to hydrogen peroxide stress and characterization of the OxyR regulon

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 190, Issue , 2014, Pages 40-54

  Milse, Johanna ^a   Petri, Kathrin ^a   Rückert, Christian ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium glutamicum; DNase footprinting; Hydrogen peroxide; Next generation sequencing; Oxidative stress; OxyR; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BINDING SITES; BIOASSAY; BIOCHIPS; DNA; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENE ENCODING; GENES; HYDROGEN; MICROARRAYS; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; FOOTPRINTING; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; OXYR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

CYSTEINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE; GENOMIC DNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA MICROARRAY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYR GENE; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM ATCC 13032;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84911425641     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: 18734863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.07.452     Document Type: Article

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