The molecular puzzle of two-component signaling cascades

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 417-424

  Foussard, Marie ^a   Cabantous, Stéphanie ^a   Pédelacq, Jean Denis ^a   Guillet, Valérie ^a   Tranier, Samuel ^a   Mourey, Lionel ^a   Birck, Catherine ^a   Samama, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Functional domains; Signal transduction; Two component systems

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; COMPARTMENT MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0035026466     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01390-9     Document Type: Review

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