Regulation of transcription by eukaryotic-like serine-threonine kinases and phosphatases in gram-positive bacterial pathogens

Virulence

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 863-885

  Wright, David P ^a   Ulijasz, Andrew T ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Infection; Phosphorylation; Serine threonine kinase; Serine threonine phosphatase; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SERINE THREONINE PHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IRON TRANSPORT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRULENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; POSIBACTERIA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84921933274     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/21505594.2014.983404     Document Type: Review

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