Specificity of the BvgAS and EvgAS phosphorelay is mediated by the C- terminal HPt domains of the sensor proteins

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 875-887

  Perraud, Anne Laure ^a   Kimmel, Brigitte ^a   Weiss, Verena ^b   Gross, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031782373     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00716.x     Document Type: Article

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