Use of heme-protein complexes by the Yersinia enterocolitica HemR receptor: Histidine residues are essential for receptor function

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 6063-6072

  Bracken, Charles S ^a   Baer, Michael T ^a   Abdur Rashid, Asiya ^a   Helms, Whitney ^a   Stojiljkovic, Igor ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CATALASE; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOPEXIN; HEMOPROTEIN; HISTIDINE; IRON; LYSINE; MYOGLOBIN; PEROXIDASE; PORPHYRIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0032862457     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.19.6063-6072.1999     Document Type: Article

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