New Insights into the Mechanism of the Kinase and Phosphatase Activities of Escherichia coli NRII (NtrB) and Their Regulation by the PII Protein

Histidine Kinases in Signal Transduction

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 143-164

  Jiang, Peng ^a   Pioszak, Augen ^a   Atkinson, Mariette R ^a   Peliska, James A ^a   Ninfa, Alexander J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION REACTION; CARBON AND NITROGEN; N-TERMINAL DOMAINS; PHOSPHATASE ACTIVITY; PHOSPHO-TRANSFER; PROTEIN DOMAINS; TWO COMPONENT SYSTEMS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 0041597207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012372484-7/50008-4     Document Type: Chapter

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