A jack of all trades: The multiple roles of the unique essential second messenger cyclic di-AMP

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 189-204

  Commichau, Fabian M ^a   Dickmanns, Achim ^a   Gundlach, Jan ^a   Ficner, Ralf ^a   Stülke, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CDAA PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC DI AMP; DIADENYLATE CYCLASE; DNA INTEGRITY SCANNING PROTEIN A; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLIC DIADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE; RIBOSWITCH;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL METABOLISM; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; HOMEOSTASIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM HOMEOSTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; SECOND MESSENGER; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; FIRMICUTES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; RIBOSWITCH; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84935686596     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13026     Document Type: Review

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