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ReviewAnnual review of microbiology2015

Transcription Factors That Defend Bacteria Against Reactive Oxygen Species.

James A Imlay

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Review in Annual review of microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 128 papers.

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128citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

128 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

James A ImlayDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801; email: jimlay@illinois.edu.

Funding

The Physiology of Oxidative Stress in Escherichia coliR01GM049640 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI IMLAY, JAMES A. · 1994 to 2024
$6.9M
The Physiology of Oxidative Stress in Escherichia coliR37GM049640 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI IMLAY, JAMES A. · 2007 to 2016
$5.3M
Soft Metal, Disulfide, and Cysteine Stresses in Escherichia coliR01GM101012 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI IMLAY, JAMES A. · 2012 to 2020
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM101012NIGMS NIH HHS GM49640NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM049640NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM101012NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM049640
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria live in a toxic world in which their competitors excrete hydrogen peroxide or superoxide-generating redox-cycling compounds. They protect themselves by activating regulons controlled by the OxyR, PerR, and SoxR transcription factors. OxyR and PerR sense peroxide when it oxidizes key thiolate or iron moieties, respectively; they then induce overlapping sets of proteins that defend their vulnerable metalloenzymes. An additional role for OxyR in detecting electrophilic compounds is possible. In some nonenteric bacteria, SoxR appears to control the synthesis and export of redox-cycling compounds, whereas in the enteric bacteria it defends the cell against the same agents. When these compounds oxidize its iron-sulfur cluster, SoxR induces proteins that exclude, excrete, or modify them. It also induces enzymes that defend the cell against the superoxide that such compounds make. Recent work has brought new insight into the biochemistry and physiology of these responses, and comparative studies have clarified their evolutionary histories.

Indexed as

BacteriaBacterial ProteinsHydrogen PeroxideOxidation-ReductionReactive Oxygen SpeciesSuperoxidesTranscription FactorsBacterial ProteinsHydrogen PeroxideReactive Oxygen SpeciesSuperoxidesTranscription Factorshydrogen peroxideOxyRPerRreactive oxygen speciesSoxRsuperoxide

Identifiers

PMID26070785
PMCPMC4618077

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