The SmtB/ArsR family of metalloregulatory transcriptional repressors: Structural insights into prokaryotic metal resistance

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 131-143

  Busenlehner, Laura S ^a   Pennella, Mario A ^a   Giedroc, David P ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CadC; CzrA; Heavy metal resistance; Metalloregulation; SmtB

Indexed keywords

METAL; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SMTB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 0037565104     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(03)00054-8     Document Type: Review

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