Statements in which the resource exists as a subject.
PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-6-25
pubmed:abstractText
Adaptive mutations are mutations that occur in nondividing or very slowly dividing microbial cells during prolonged nonlethal selection and that are specific to the challenge of the selection in the sense that the only mutations that can be detected are those that provide a growth advantage to the cell. The phoPQ genes encode a two-component positively acting regulatory system that controls expression of at least 25 to 30 genes in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. PhoPQ responds to a variety of environmental stress signals including Mg2+ starvation and nutritional deprivation. Here I show that disruption of phoP or phoQ by Tn10dCam significantly reduces the adaptive mutation rate to ebgR, indicating that the adaptive mutagenesis machinery is regulated, directly or indirectly, by phoPQ. The finding that it is regulated implies that adaptive mutagenesis does not simply result from a failure of various error correction mechanisms during prolonged starvation.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-105963, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-1465423, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-1530848, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-1658561, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-1729240, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-1916241, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-2062865, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-2227388, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-2307353, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-2646710, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-374361, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-6793063, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-7777535, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-7777567, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-8146657, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-8752324, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-8955299, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-8955307, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-8999810, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-9017388, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-9045812, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/9603873-9491599
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0021-9193
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
180
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2862-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Adaptive mutagenesis at ebgR is regulated by PhoPQ.
pubmed:affiliation
Biology Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627-0211, USA. drbh@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't