Bacterial redox sensors

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 954-966

  Green, Jeffrey ^a   Paget, Mark S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 BENZOQUINONE; 5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); ACONITATE HYDRATASE; CYSTEINE; DNA; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; HEME; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; MENADIONE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) TRANSHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PEROXIDE; PYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; REX PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CATABOLISM; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL REGENERATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA BINDING; HOMEOSTASIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROORGANISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZOQUINONES; CYSTEINE; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; HEMEPROTEINS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; NAD; NADP; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 9444239308     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1022     Document Type: Review

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