Sigma factors

Overview of Bacillus subtilis sigma factors

• SigA
  (list of SigA controlled genes)
• SigB
• SigD
• SigF
• SigG
• SigH
• SigI
• SigK
• SigM
• SigV
• SigW
• SigX
• SigY
• SigZ
• Xpf
• YlaC
• YvrI-YvrH (composite sigma factor)

Important Reviews

Tanja M Gruber, Carol A Gross
Multiple sigma subunits and the partitioning of bacterial transcription space.
Annu Rev Microbiol: 2003, 57;441-66
[PubMed:14527287] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

John D Helmann
The extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factors.
Adv Microb Physiol: 2002, 46;47-110
[PubMed:12073657] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L Kroos, Y T Yu
Regulation of sigma factor activity during Bacillus subtilis development.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2000, 3(6);553-60
[PubMed:11121773] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J D Helmann
Anti-sigma factors.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 1999, 2(2);135-41
[PubMed:10322161] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L Kroos, B Zhang, H Ichikawa, Y T Yu
Control of sigma factor activity during Bacillus subtilis sporulation.
Mol Microbiol: 1999, 31(5);1285-94
[PubMed:10200951] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K T Hughes, K Mathee
The anti-sigma factors.
Annu Rev Microbiol: 1998, 52;231-86
[PubMed:9891799] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

W G Haldenwang
The sigma factors of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiol Rev: 1995, 59(1);1-30
[PubMed:7708009] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

R Losick, P Stragier
Crisscross regulation of cell-type-specific gene expression during development in B. subtilis.
Nature: 1992, 355(6361);601-4
[PubMed:1538747] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Stragier
Dances with sigmas.
EMBO J: 1991, 10(12);3559-66
[PubMed:1935888] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Stragier, R Losick
Cascades of sigma factors revisited.
Mol Microbiol: 1990, 4(11);1801-6
[PubMed:2127951] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

R H Doi, L F Wang
Multiple procaryotic ribonucleic acid polymerase sigma factors.
Microbiol Rev: 1986, 50(3);227-43
[PubMed:3095618] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)