The Bacillus subtilis regulator protein SpoIIE shares functional and structural similarities with eukaryotic protein phosphatases 2C

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-123

  Schroeter, Ragnar ^a   Schlisio, Susanne ^a   Lucet, Isabelle ^b   Yudkin, Michael ^b   Borriss, Rainer ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Protein phosphatase 2C; SpoIIE; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIVALENT CATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE; METAL ION; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2C; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032959246     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00117-2     Document Type: Article

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