Alanine mutants of the Spo0F response regulator modifying specificity for sensor kinases in sporulation initiation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 389-395

  Jiang, Min ^a   Tzeng, Yin Ling ^a   Feher, Victoria A ^a   Perego, Marta ^a   Hoch, James A ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SPOROGENESIS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN KINASES; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032993415     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01481.x     Document Type: Article

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