Factors that mediate and prevent degradation of the inactive and unstable GudB protein in Bacillus subtilis

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Stannek, Lorena ^a   Gunka, Katrin ^a   Care, Rachel A ^a   Gerth, Ulf ^b   Commichau, Fabian Moritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arginine phosphorylation; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Protein folding; Protein modification; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ARGININE KINASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MCSB GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMID; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; TRANSPOSON; WESTERN BLOTTING; YWLE GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84920639697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00758     Document Type: Article

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