The Era-like GTPase TrmE conditionally activates gadE and glutamate-dependent acid resistance in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 948-961

  Gong, Shimei ^a   Ma, Zhuo ^a   Foster, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACID; ANTIPORTER; BACTERIAL DNA; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID ANTIPORTER; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ISOENZYME; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN GADA; PROTEIN GADB; PROTEIN GADC; PROTEIN GADE; PROTEIN TRME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STOMACH PH; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOENZYMES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 8544280704     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04312.x     Document Type: Article

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