The ATP-binding cassette subunit of the maltose transporter MalK antagonizes MalT, the activator of the Escherichia coli mal regulon

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 535-546

  Panagiotidis, Cynthia H ^a   Boos, Winfried ^b   Shuman, Howard A ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MALTOTRIOSE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRISACCHARIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031768746     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01084.x     Document Type: Article

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