Adaptation to sustained nitrogen starvation by Escherichia coli requires the eukaryote-like serine/threonine kinase YeaG

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Figueira, Rita ^a   Brown, Daniel R ^a   Ferreira, Delfim ^a   Eldridge, Matthew J G ^a   Burchell, Lynn ^a   Pan, Zhensheng ^a   Helaine, Sophie ^a   Wigneshweraraj, Sivaramesh ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DINJ PROTEIN, E COLI; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MQSA PROTEIN, E COLI; MQSR PROTEIN, E COLI; NITROGEN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA; YAFQ PROTEIN, E COLI; YEAG PROTEIN, E COLI;

ADAPTATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; NITROGEN; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 84949255688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17524     Document Type: Article

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