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Physiological analysis of the stringent response elicited in an extreme thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 2006
Kasai Koji, Nishizawa Tomoyasu, Takahashi Kosaku, Hosaka Takeshi, Aoki Hiroyuki, Ochi Kozo
Abstract excerpt
Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a key mediator of stringent control, an adaptive response of bacteria to amino acid starvation, and has thus been termed a bacterial alarmone. Previous X-ray crystallographic analysis has provided a structural basis for the transcriptional regulation of RNA polymerase activity by ppGpp in the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus. Here we investigated the physiological...
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