The ATP-dependent ClpXP and Lon proteases regulate expression of the Yersinia pestis type III secretion system via regulated proteolysis of YmoA, a small histone-like protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1364-1378

  Jackson, Michael W ^a   Silva Herzog, Eugenia ^a   Plano, Gregory V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM; CLPXP PROTEINASE; CYTARABINE; ENDOPEPTIDASE LA; HISTONE; PROTEIN YMOA; PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LCRF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DELETION MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PROTEASE LA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 9644301279     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04353.x     Document Type: Article

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