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A Regulatory Circuit Composed of a Transcription Factor, IscR, and a Regulatory RNA, RyhB, Controls Fe-S Cluster Delivery

scientific article

A genetic analysis of the response of Escherichia coli to cobalt stress

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Alteration of a single tryptophan residue of the cellulose-binding domain blocks secretion of the Erwinia chrysanthemi Cel5 cellulase (ex-EGZ) via the type II system.

scientific article published in October 2000

An early origin of iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis machineries before Earth oxygenation

scientific article published in 2022

Art and microbiology: encounters of the third type

scientific article published on 10 December 2018

Assembly of the type II secretion machinery of Erwinia chrysanthemi: direct interaction and associated conformational change between OutE, the putative ATP-binding component and the membrane protein OutL

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Assignment of the (1)H, (15)N and (13)C resonances of SufA from Escherichia coli involved in Fe-S cluster biosynthesis.

scientific article

Biogenesis of Fe/S proteins and pathogenicity: IscR plays a key role in allowing Erwinia chrysanthemi to adapt to hostile conditions.

scientific article

Biosynthesis and physiology of coenzyme Q in bacteria.

scientific article published on 28 January 2014

Building Fe-S proteins: bacterial strategies.

scientific article published on June 2010

Calorimetry and mass spectrometry study of oxidized calmodulin interaction with target and differential repair by methionine sulfoxide reductases.

scientific article published in May 2005

Cation binding mode of fully oxidised calmodulin explained by the unfolding of the apostate.

scientific article published in November 2002

Cellobiose metabolism in Erwinia: genetic study

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

Cellulase EGZ of Erwinia chrysanthemi: structural organization and importance of His98 and Glu133 residues for catalysis

scientific article published on February 1, 1991

Cloning of genes encoding extracellular metalloproteases from Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16.

scientific article

Cobalt stress in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica: molecular bases for toxicity and resistance.

scientific article published on 26 September 2011

Cobalt stress in Escherichia coli. The effect on the iron-sulfur proteins.

scientific article published on 21 July 2007

Commercial Lysogeny Broth culture media and oxidative stress: a cautious tale.

scientific article published on 15 July 2014

Differential effect of dsbA and dsbC mutations on extracellular enzyme secretion in Erwinia chrysanthemi.

scientific article

ErpA, an iron sulfur (Fe S) protein of the A-type essential for respiratory metabolism in Escherichia coli.

scholarly article

Erwinia chrysanthemi iron metabolism: the unexpected implication of the inner membrane platform within the type II secretion system

scientific article

Evolution of Fe/S cluster biogenesis in the anaerobic parasite Blastocystis.

scientific article

Evolution of Ubiquinone Biosynthesis: Multiple Proteobacterial Enzymes with Various Regioselectivities To Catalyze Three Contiguous Aromatic Hydroxylation Reactions.

scientific article published on July 2016

External pH: an environmental signal that helps to rationalize pel gene duplication in Erwinia chrysanthemi

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Fe-S cluster biosynthesis controls uptake of aminoglycosides in a ROS-less death pathway

scientific article published in June 2013

Fe-S clusters, fragile sentinels of the cell.

scientific article published on 31 January 2011

Ferredoxin competes with bacterial frataxin in binding to the desulfurase IscS.

scientific article

From Iron and Cysteine to Iron-Sulfur Clusters: the Biogenesis Protein Machineries.

scientific article published on September 2008

Genetic analysis of the pelA-pelE cluster encoding the acidic and basic pectate lyases in Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16

scientific article published on 01 October 1987

Genetic approaches of the Fe-S cluster biogenesis process in bacteria: Historical account, methodological aspects and future challenges.

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Genetic, Biochemical, and Biophysical Methods for Studying FeS Proteins and Their Assembly.

scientific article

Genome sequence of the plant-pathogenic bacterium Dickeya dadantii 3937

scientific article

How Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae build Fe/S proteins.

scientific article

In vivo [Fe-S] cluster acquisition by IscR and NsrR, two stress regulators in Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Informational suppression to investigate structural functional and evolutionary aspects of the Erwinia chrysanthemi cellulase EGZ.

scientific article

Interplay between Process Zone and Material Heterogeneities for Dynamic Cracks.

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Iron and sulfur in proteins. How does the cell build Fe-S clusters, cofactors essential for life?

scientific article

Iron/sulfur proteins biogenesis in prokaryotes: formation, regulation and diversity

scientific article

Mechanistic studies of the SufS-SufE cysteine desulfurase: evidence for sulfur transfer from SufS to SufE.

scientific article

Methionine sulfoxide reductases protect Ffh from oxidative damages in Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on April 2004

Molecular organization, biochemical function, cellular role and evolution of NfuA, an atypical Fe‐S carrier

scientific article published on September 12, 2012

Mutagenesis of cellulase EGZ for studying the general protein secretory pathway in Erwinia chrysanthemi.

scientific article published on March 1993

Mutants of Erwinia chrysanthemi defective in secretion of pectinase and cellulase.

scientific article

NfuA, a new factor required for maturing Fe/S proteins in Escherichia coli under oxidative stress and iron starvation conditions

scientific article published on 13 March 2008

Overproduction, purification and characterization of the cellulose-binding domain of the Erwinia chrysanthemi secreted endoglucanase EGZ

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Oxidative stress antagonizes fluoroquinolone drug sensitivity via the SoxR-SUF Fe-S cluster homeostatic axis

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Oxidative stress, protein damage and repair in bacteria.

scientific article

Quinolinate synthetase, an iron-sulfur enzyme in NAD biosynthesis

scientific article

Redundant hydrogen peroxide scavengers contribute to Salmonella virulence and oxidative stress resistance.

scientific article published on 15 May 2009

Repairing oxidized proteins in the bacterial envelope using respiratory chain electrons

scientific article published on 7 December 2015

Reprint of: Iron/sulfur proteins biogenesis in prokaryotes: formation, regulation and diversity

scientific article published on 7 May 2013

Resolution of four pectate lyase structural genes of Erwinia chrysanthemi (EC16) and characterization of the enzymes produced in Escherichia coli.

scientific article published in September 1987

Salmonella detoxifying enzymes are sufficient to cope with the host oxidative burst

scientific article published on 21 March 2011

Sensing and adaptation to low pH mediated by inducible amino acid decarboxylases in Salmonella

scientific article

Sequence analysis of the cellulase-encoding celY gene of Erwinia chrysanthemi: a possible case of interspecies gene transfer.

scientific article

Silver and Antibiotic, New Facts to an Old Story

scholarly article by Frédéric Barras et al published 22 August 2018 in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)

Silver potentiates aminoglycoside toxicity by enhancing their uptake

scientific article published on 6 April 2017

Solution Structure of the Cellulose-Binding Domain of the Endoglucanase Z Secreted by Erwinia chrysanthemi,

scientific article published on December 23, 1997

Species-specific activity of antibacterial drug combinations

scientific article published in Nature

Sposensor: a whole-bacterial biosensor that uses immobilized Bacillus subtilis spores and a one-step incubation/detection process

scientific article published on 4 March 2009

SufA from Erwinia chrysanthemi. Characterization of a scaffold protein required for iron-sulfur cluster assembly.

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

SufC: an unorthodox cytoplasmic ABC/ATPase required for [Fe-S] biogenesis under oxidative stress

scientific article

The 'liaisons dangereuses' between iron and antibiotics.

scientific article published on 4 March 2016

The Biosynthetic Pathway of Ubiquinone Contributes to Pathogenicity of Francisella novicida

scientific article published on 20 September 2021

The CsdA cysteine desulphurase promotes Fe/S biogenesis by recruiting Suf components and participates to a new sulphur transfer pathway by recruiting CsdL (ex-YgdL), a ubiquitin-modifying-like protein.

scientific article

The ErpA/NfuA complex builds an oxidative resistant Fe-S cluster delivery pathway.

scientific article published on 6 April 2018

The UbiK protein is an accessory factor necessary for bacterial ubiquinone (UQ) biosynthesis and forms a complex with the UQ biogenesis factor UbiJ.

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

The cyst-dividing bacterium Ramlibacter tataouinensis TTB310 genome reveals a well-stocked toolbox for adaptation to a desert environment

scientific article published in 2011

The desert of Tataouine: an extreme environment that hosts a wide diversity of microorganisms and radiotolerant bacteria

scientific article published in March 2006

The iron-binding CyaY and IscX proteins assist the ISC-catalyzed Fe-S biogenesis in Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 16 January 2015

The iron-sulfur cluster sensor IscR is a negative regulator of Spi1 type III secretion system in Salmonella enterica.

scientific article

The sRNA RyhB regulates the synthesis of the Escherichia coli methionine sulfoxide reductase MsrB but not MsrA

scientific article published in 2013

Turning Escherichia coli into a Frataxin-Dependent Organism

scientific article

[How bacteria resist to bleach: a new way of repairing oxidized proteins].

scientific article published in June 2016

ubiI,a New Gene inEscherichia coliCoenzyme Q Biosynthesis, Is Involved in Aerobic C5-hydroxylation

scientific article

ubiJ, a new gene required for aerobic growth and proliferation in macrophage, is involved in coenzyme Q biosynthesis in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

scientific article published on 18 October 2013