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The small acidic proteins CspΒ and CspC are the major cold shock-induced proteins of Bacillus subtilis. Analysis of mRNA revealed a transient four-fold increase in the transcription level of both genes during cold shock. The cspB and cspC mRNAs are dramatically stabilised after a temperature downshift from 37° C to 15° C. The data in this study support the idea that the expression of CspB and CspC in B. subtilis during cold shock is regulated mainly at the post-transcriptional level, as is also the case with CspA in Escherichia coli.
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Received: 23 February 1999 / Accepted: 2 June 1999
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Kaan, T., Jürgen, B. & Schweder, T. Regulation of the expression of the cold shock proteins CspB and CspC in Bacillus subtilis . Mol Gen Genet 262, 351–354 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004380051093
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004380051093