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A Rhodobacter sphaeroides protein mechanistically similar to Escherichia coli DksA regulates photosynthetic growth.
mBio - 29 Apr 2014
Lennon Christopher W, Lemmer Kimberly C, Irons Jessica L, Sellman Max I, Donohue Timothy J, Gourse Richard L, Ross Wilma
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ABSTRACT DksA is a global regulatory protein that, together with the alarmone ppGpp, is required for the "stringent response" to nutrient starvation in the gammaproteobacterium Escherichia coli and for more moderate shifts between growth conditions. DksA modulates the expression of hundreds of genes, directly or indirectly. Mutants lacking a DksA homolog exhibit pleiotropic phenotypes in other gammaproteobacteria...
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