Regulation of the transcriptional activator NtrC1: Structural studies of the regulatory and AAA+ ATPase domains

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2552-2563

  Lee, Seok Yong ^a,b   De La Torre, Armando ^b,c   Yan, Dalai ^d   Kustu, Sydney ^d   Nixon, B Tracy ^e   Wemmer, David E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

54; AAA+ ATPase; Crystal structure; Response regulator; Transcriptional activator; Two component system

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0142091549     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1125603     Document Type: Article

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