Nickel coordination is regulated by the DNA-bound state of NikR

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 126-130

  Carrington, Paul E ^a   Chivers, Peter T ^b,c   Al Mjeni, Faizah ^a,d   Sauer, Robert T ^b   Maroney, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; COORDINATION COMPOUND; CYSTEINE; DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTIDINE; LIGAND; NICKEL; PROTEIN NIKR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NICKEL; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X-RAYS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037315184     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb890     Document Type: Article

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