Structural and functional analyses of activating amino acid substitutions in the receiver domain of NtrC: Evidence for an activating surface

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 299-316

  Nohaile, Michael ^a   Kern, Dorothee ^a   Wemmer, David ^a   Stedman, Kenneth ^b,c   Kustu, Sydney ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constitutive mutant forms of NtrC; NMR chemical shift analysis; Phosphorylation; Signal transduction; Two component systems

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0031576335     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1296     Document Type: Article

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