The GlnD and GlnK homologues of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) are functionally dissimilar to their nitrogen regulatory system counterparts from enteric bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 319-330

  Hesketh, A ^a   Fink, D ^b   Gust, B ^a   Rexer, H U ^b   Scheel, B ^b   Chater, K ^a   Wohlleben, W ^b   Engels, A ^b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; ISOENZYME; MUTANT PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PROTEIN GLND; PROTEIN GLNK; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC CODE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036430005     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03149.x     Document Type: Article

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