PAS domains: Internal sensors of oxygen, redox potential, and light

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 479-506

  Taylor, Barry L ^a   Zhulin, Igor B ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; OXYGEN;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSENSOR; CELL FUNCTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENERGY METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 0032990441     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.63.2.479-506.1999     Document Type: Review

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