Structure of a bacterial quorum-sensing transcription factor complexed with pheromone and DNA

Nature

Volumn 417, Issue 6892, 2002, Pages 971-974

  Zhang, Rong guang ^a   Pappas, Terina ^b   Brace, Jennifer L ^a   Miller, Paula C ^c,d   Oulmassov, Tim ^c   Molyneaux, John M ^c,d   Anderson, John C ^c   Bashkin, James K ^c,d   Wlnans, Stephen C ^b   Joachimiak, Andrzej ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOLUMINESCENCE; HYDROGEN BONDS; HYDROPHOBICITY;

PATHOGENESIS;

DNA;

PHEROMONE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DNA; GENETICS; PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; HOMOSERINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 0037182879     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00833     Document Type: Article

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