SOS, the formidable strategy of bacteria against aggressions

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1126-1145

  Baharoglu, Zeynep ^a,b   Mazel, Didier ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Antibiotic resistance; Bacteria; DNA repair; SOS; Stress

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; GENOTOXIC STRESS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT STRESS; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; STRESS; BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84924921744     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12077     Document Type: Review

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