Conserved sequence motifs in the unorthodox BvgS two-component sensor protein of Bordetella pertussis

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 169-176

  Beier, Dagmar ^a,b   Deppisch, Heike ^a   Gross, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Istituto Ricerche Immunobiologiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bordetella pertussis; BvgS; Sensor protein; TonB; Two component system; Walker box

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; VALINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029904958     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02173217     Document Type: Article

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