An alternative P(II) protein in the regulation of glutamine synthetase in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 133-146

  Van Heeswijk, Wally C ^a,b,d   Hoving, Sjouke ^b,e   Molenaar, Douwe ^b,f   Stegeman, Brenda ^b,g   Kahn, Daniel ^c   Westerhoff, Hans V ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CARRIER PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN; PIID REGULATORY PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029657995     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.6281349.x     Document Type: Article

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