The uncoupling of oxygen sensing, phosphorylation signalling and transcriptional activation in oxygen sensor FixL and FixJ mutants

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 373-383

  Saito, Ken ^a   Ito, Eiichi ^b   Hosono, Kaito ^c   Nakamura, Kayako ^a,e   Imai, Kiyohiro ^c   Iizuka, Tetsutaro ^a   Shiro, Yoshitsugu ^a   Nakamura, Hiro ^a,d  

^a RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GENE PRODUCT; HISTIDINE; MONOMER; MUTANT PROTEIN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN FIXJ; PROTEIN FIXL; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BETA CHAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL BOND; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, REPORTER; HEMEPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0038349202     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03446.x     Document Type: Article

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