Article
An imbalance of HU synthesis induces mucoidy in Escherichia coli.
Journal of molecular biology - 20 Dec 1993
Painbéni E, Mouray E, Gottesman S, Rouvière-Yaniv J
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in a number of loci, including the lon gene, dramatically increase the production of colanic acid capsular polysaccharide and render Escherichia coli K-12 mucoid. The lon gene, which encodes an ATP-dependent protease, is localized at ten minutes on the E. coli map and is very closely linked to the hupB gene coding for one of the two subunits of the histone-like protein HU. Surprisingly the introduction...
Topics
- ATP-Dependent Proteases
- Bacterial Capsules
- Bacterial Proteins
- DNA Repair
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Lethal
- Heat-Shock Proteins
- Phenotype