Function and Control of the Spx-Family of Proteins Within the Bacterial Stress Response

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Zuber, Peter (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Microbiology, 8
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Infectious Diseases.

This SpringerBrief on Spx reviews the investigations that led to the discovery of Spx and its orthologs and ties together the results of various studies that have explored the function and control of spx in Gram-positive organisms.  Spx of Bacillus subtilis has been extensively studied, but very lit...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• An overview of Spx
• Regulation of the stress response in Gram-positive bacteria
• Expression of spx is affected by multiple stress stimuli
• Post-transcriptional control of Spx: Redox-dependent activation
• Post-transcriptional control of Spx: Regulated proteolysis
• Targets of Spx-dependent transcriptional activation
• Spx function and bacterial virulence
• Questions and future directions.