In vivo analysis of the roles of conserved aspartate and histidine residues within a complex response regulator

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1538-1552

  Li, Lina ^a   Kehoe, David M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; HISTIDINE; PHYCOCYANIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ASPARTIC ACID; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HISTIDINE; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 14844336332     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04491.x     Document Type: Article

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