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Hypochlorous acid activates the heat shock and soxRS systems of Escherichia coli.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 1996
Dukan S, Dadon S, Smulski D R, Belkin S
Abstract excerpt
A series of plasmids, containing fusions of different stress promoters to lux reporter genes, was used in an attempt to monitor the defense circuits activated upon exposure of Escherichia coli to sublethal doses of free chlorine. A significant level of activation was exhibited by promoters of three heat shock genes (grpE, dnaK, and lon), in an rpoH-dependent manner. The promoter of micF, a gene under the control...
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