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SUBMITTER: Avila-Perez M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2812468 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Avila-Pérez Marcela M van der Steen Jeroen B JB Kort Remco R Hellingwerf Klaas J KJ
Journal of bacteriology 20091130 3
The sigma(B)-dependent general stress response in the common soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis can be elicited by a range of stress factors, such as starvation or an ethanol, salt, or heat shock, via a complex upstream signaling cascade. Additionally, sigma(B) can be activated by blue light via the phototropin homologue YtvA, a component of the environmental branch of the signaling cascade. Here we use a reporter-gene fusion to show that sigma(B) can also be activated by red light via the energy ...[more]