Transcription initiation by sigma factors (WP2564)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Authors

Andra Waagmeester , Egon Willighagen , Marianthi Kalafati , and Eric Weitz

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Organisms

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Communities

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Pathway Ontology

regulatory pathway transcription pathway

References

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3. Differential expression of 10 sigma factor genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Manganelli R, Dubnau E, Tyagi S, Kramer FR, Smith I. Mol Microbiol. 1999 Jan;31(2):715–24. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
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5. Novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis anti-sigma factor antagonists control sigmaF activity by distinct mechanisms. Beaucher J, Rodrigue S, Jacques PE, Smith I, Brzezinski R, Gaudreau L. Mol Microbiol. 2002 Sep;45(6):1527–40. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
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13. Regulation of central metabolism genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by parallel feed-forward loops controlled by sigma factor E (σ(E)). Datta P, Shi L, Bibi N, Balázsi G, Gennaro ML. J Bacteriol. 2011 Mar;193(5):1154–60. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
14. High-resolution phenotypic profiling defines genes essential for mycobacterial growth and cholesterol catabolism. Griffin JE, Gawronski JD, Dejesus MA, Ioerger TR, Akerley BJ, Sassetti CM. PLoS Pathog. 2011 Sep;7(9):e1002251. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia