'Locked-on' and 'locked-off' signal transduction mutations in the periplasmic domain of the Escherichia coli narQ and narX sensors affect nitrate- and nitrite-dependent regulation by NarL and NarP

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1049-1060

  Chiang, Robin C ^a,b   Cavicchioli, Ricardo ^a,c   Gunsalus, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030739086     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.4131779.x     Document Type: Article

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