In vivo detection of molybdate-binding proteins using a competition assay with ModE in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 187-193

  Kuper, Jochen ^a   Zu Berstenhorst, Sonja Meyer ^a,b   Vödisch, Bernd ^b   Mendel, Ralf R ^a   Schwarz, Günter ^a   Boxer, David H ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cnx1; Miller assay; ModE; Molybdate binding; Molybdenum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDIC ACID; PROTEIN CNX1; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN MODE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; BINDING COMPETITION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CALNEXIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLYBDENUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ACRONICTA LEPORINA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037458194     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01121-7     Document Type: Article

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