Functional dissection of a cell-division inhibitor, SulA, of Escherichia coli and its negative regulation by Lon

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 254, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 351-357

  Higashitani, A ^a,c   Ishii, Y ^b   Kato, Y ^b   Horiuchi, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell cycle control; FtsZ; Protease; Protein recognition; SOS response

Indexed keywords

ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMIDS; PROTEASE LA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SULA;

EID: 0030943075     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050426     Document Type: Article

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