Redox signal transduction: Mutations shifting [2Fe-2S] centers of the SoxR sensor-regulator to the oxidized form

Cell

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-129

  Hidalgo, Elena ^a   Ding, Huangen ^a   Demple, Bruce ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION;

EID: 0030936964     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81864-4     Document Type: Article

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